290 BIRDS OF THE DISTRICT. 
Phylloscopus rufus, CHIFFCHAFF. 
“‘A common summer visitor” to Wirral. (Br. p. 6.) 
Also throughout the district. It may be heard singing in 
September [A.O.W. ] 
* Phylloscopus trochilus. WiLLow-Wren. 
“An abundant summer visitor” to Wirral (Br. p. 6), as also 
to the district generally. 
Phylloscopus sibilatrix. Woop-Wren. 
‘*A common summer visitor” to Wirral (Br. p. 6.) Much 
less common in the district than the two previous species. 
Rare in Mr. Ruppy’s district. Not very common at Ince 
[R.N.] Common in the woods at Colwyn Bay [A.O.W.]; and 
at Nant-y-ffrith [R.H.V.K.] 
Acrocephalus streperus. REED-WARBLER. 
Although not uncommon in the east of Cheshire, this species 
is very local in our district. 
A nest was given me by Mr. Henry Bowers, Chester, 
taken from Marbury Mere, where he says it breeds in some 
numbers: and from what Lord Combermere writes I have no 
doubt that it breeds at Combermere also. He says, ‘‘There are 
generally two or three nests every year; they are suspended in 
the reeds, about two or three feet above the water.” Probably 
breeds also at Oulton and Cholmondeley. 
“A few years ago this species might generally be detected as 
an annual summer visitor to the Bidston Marshes.” (Br. p. 6.) 
Acrocephalus phragmitis. SEpDGE- WARBLER. 
“An abundant summer visitor” to Wirral (Br. p. 6), as also to 
all the low-lying parts of the district. Very common at 
Edge, and noisy at night [C.W.D.] Common on the marshy 
ground near the station at Mostyn [W.H.D.]; but rare at 
Colwyn Bay, if indeed it occurs at all ow Very common 
by rivers and bogs [T.R.] Not common at Nant-y-ffrith 
[R.H.V.K.] 
Locustella nzevia. GRASSHOPPER-WARBLER. 
A summer visitor. In some years common round Chester. 
A nest found in Newton Lane on June 2nd, 1887, by Mr. 
A. PowLEs contained six eggs partially incubated. 
Not observed at Edge [C.W.D.] Nests annually at Ince, 
Thornton-le-Moors, and Dunham, but is rarer than at Colwyn 
Bay, where it breeds freely in the scrub on the mountains [R.N.} 
Sometimes a duet may be heard in the evening between it and 
the Nightjar [A.O.W. ] 
