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ON THE MORE IMPORTANT ADDITIONS TO OUR 

 KNOWLEDGE OF BRITISH BIRDS SINCE 1899.^ 



BY 



H. F. WITHERBY and N. F. TICEHURST. 

 Part II. 



(Continued from page 56.) 



DARTFORD WARBLER Sylvia undata (Bodd.). S. page 55. 



Norfolk. —One identified by Mr. A. Napier on the sea-bank at 

 Vv^ells, 15tli December, 1905. " Always a rai-e bird in Norfolk " 

 (J. H. Gurney, Zoologist. 1906, p. 137). 



Mr. Saunders states that it nests in Norfolk, but on the 

 cover of part VIII. of his Manual, he mentions that exception had 

 been taken to this statement by two great authorities on the 

 birds of Norfolk. He hoped to prove the correctness of the 

 assertion before the work was finished, but no further informa- 

 tion is given 



Shropshire. — Two pairs nesting near Ludlow in 1903 (H. E. 

 Forrest, t.c, 1903, p. 349). 



Staffordshire. — Evidence given of its having probably 

 nested near Cannock Chase about 1870 (F. C. R. Jourdain, t.c, 

 1903, p. 424). 



This bird has been " apparently extending its range both 

 westward and northward of late years " (S. page 55). 



GOLDEN-CRESTED WRENBegiihiscristatusKoch. S.page57. 



Outer Hebrides. — Breeding at Stornoway, in 1906 (N. B. 

 Kinnear (Ann. Scot. Nat. Ri.st., 1907, p. 18). 



The Goldcrest was not previously known to nest in the 

 Outer Hebrides. 



FIRE-CRESTED WREN Begulus ignicapillus [C. L. Brehm). 



S. page 59. 

 Wales — Bwlch, BreconsMre. — ^A male and female were shot 



* Correspondents who have kindly noted omissions and errors in tliis 

 record, will find tliem incorporated, with other additions, at the conclusion 

 of this series of articles. 



