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Lancashire, about the end of the last century, and sent 

 from thence to Dr. Latham, by Sh' Ashton Lever, of 

 Alkrmgton Hall, Middleton, the founder of the famous 

 Leverian Museum. Professor Newton, however (Yarrell's 

 "British Birds," 4th ed., p. 415), says the Garden-Warbler 

 " was first made known as a British bird by Willughby, 

 to whom it was sent from Yorkshire by Mr. Jessop of 

 Broom Hall, near Sheffield, under the name of ' Petti- 

 chaps.' " It is a summer migrant, and arrives late in 

 April or early in May, leaving again early in September. 

 In the Clitheroe district it is much commoner than the 

 Blackcap, and in the Hodder valley, near Stonyhurst, 

 is comparatively numerous. [Mr. W. F. Brockholes 

 says it is certainly more plentiful than the Blackcap 

 about Garstang. — Ed.] But from all other parts of the 

 county I have it reported as rare, and as only breeding 

 in small numbers, the Liverpool naturalists (Xat. Scrap 

 Boole, pt. 4) being at issue as to whether it is found at 

 all in their neighbourhood. Dr. Skaife {Ma;/. Xat. Hist., 

 1838) considered it very common near Blackburn in 

 1838, but Mr. Pi. J. Howard says that now, though 

 generally distributed, it is not numerous. Everywhere 

 else, from Urmston to Barrow-in-Furness and from 

 Blackpool to Piossendale, a pair or two may be found 

 throughout the summer. It lays four or five eggs the 

 end of May or beginning of June, and the nest, as a 

 rule, is shallower and looser than the Blackcap's, being 

 placed usually in brambles, but sometimes in other 

 situations, for Mr. T. Altham has not only found it in 

 nettles, and in a fern, but in one instance on the branch 

 of a plane-tree, 14 feet from the ground. 



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