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SEVENTH SERIES. 



No. XVIT. JANUARY 1899. 



I. — Oa the Occurrence of Radde's Bush-Warbler (Lusciniola 

 schwarzi) in England. By Howard Saunders. 



(Plate I.) 



For tlie discovery in England of this Warbler from Eastern 

 Siberia ornithologists are indebted to the persistent re- 

 searches of Mr. G. H. Caton Haigli. On the 1st of 

 October last, according to his custom at the time of 

 migration, Mr. Haigli was diligently ''working" the hedge- 

 rows which border the long sea-banks on the Lincolnshire 

 side of the Humber, and^ when near North Cotes (where he 

 obtained the first British S] ecimen of the Greenish Willow- 

 Warbler), he was attracted by a strange and particularly 

 powerful note. Thereupon the hedgerow was thoroughly 

 beaten out, and the owner of the loud voice proved to be 

 the Warbler in question — a bird about the size of a Wood- 

 Wren. Easterly winds had been prevalent for some time. 



Radde discovered this Warbler in a kitchen-garden at 

 Kulussutajevsk, near the Tarei-nor, Transbaikalia, on the 

 22nd of September, 1856, and named it Sylvia (Phyllo- 

 pneuste) schwarzi, after his friend, the astronomer to the 

 expedition (Reis. Slid. Ost-Sibir. Bd. ii. pp. 260-2G3, tav. x. 

 figs. 1—3). He afterwards found it in the Chingan Mountains. 

 Dybowsky met with it in Daiiria and the IJssuri country; 

 Schrenck in the Amur Valley, and Dr. Nikolski in the south- 

 western forests of the Island of Saghalien. From the dates 

 at which specimens were obtained, the bird evidently breeds 



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