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this small Warbler was taken at the lantern of Sule 

 Skerry Lighthouse, thirty-three miles west of Orkney, and 

 was afterwards sent to Mr. W. Eagle Clarke, but having- been 

 immersed in methylated spirit and become sodden, it was 

 not at once identified [cf. "Ann. Scot. Nat. Hist.," 1907, 

 p. 15). With other interesting- birds, it was exhibited by 

 Mr. Clarke before the British Ornithologists' Club 

 (Bull., XIX., p. 18). 



In Heligoland Giitke obtained an example in 1846, and 

 subsequently saw six or eight skulking in a thick and 

 favourite hedge. In Italy, one was secured near Cremona, 

 in November, 1897, and one at Udine in December, 1901. 

 Messrs. Harvie-Brown and Seebohm found this species in 

 the Petchora valley, and the latter subsequently discovered 

 the nest and eggs on the Yenesei ; the breeding-range 

 extending to Lake Baikal. The bird is smaller th-an our 

 Chiffchaif, is browner above, buffish-white on the under 

 parts, and has very dark tarsi. 



VI. — Cetti's Wakblek. 

 Cettia cettii (Marmora). 



A male of this southern species was shot at Battle, 

 Sussex, on May 12th, 1904, and seen in the flesh by 

 Mr. M. J. Nicoll, who exhibited it at the British 

 Ornithologists' ( Uub (Bull., XIV., p. 84) . This was the first 

 authentic record for Great Britain, for Teniminck's state- 

 ment that the species had been found in England was 

 erroneous at the time that he made it. 



This rufous Bush-Warbler is a member of a small 

 genus characterized by having- only ten tail feathers. It 

 frequents scrub near water, and is found, locally, from 

 Portugal and North Africa eastward to Asia Minor and 

 Turkestan. 



[A specimen of the Amiorican Yellow Warbler, 

 Dendrceca cestiva, was exhibited by Mr. E. Bidwell (Bull. 

 B.O.C., XV., p. 46), and stated to have been picked up 



