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THE SARDINIAN WARBLER IN SUSSEX: 

 A NEW BRITISH BIRD. 



BY 



THOMAS PARKIN, m.a., f.z.s., m.b.o.u. 



On the evening of Tuesday, June 4th, of this year (1907), 

 a Sardinian Warbler, 8ylvia Tnelanocei^hala (Gmel.) was 

 brought to me in the flesh, for identification, by Mr. 

 G. Bristow, taxidermist, of Silchester Road, St. Leonards- 

 on-Sea. It had been killed the day before in a bramble 



Sardinian Waeblee f Si/lvia melanocephala (Gm.)). 

 Male shot June 3rd, 1907, near Hastings. 



bush, in the neighbourhood of Hastings, and proved on 

 dissection to be a male. 



