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THE BARRED WARBLER. 



Sylvia nisoria (Bechstein). 



On March 4th 1879, Professor Newton exhibited at a meeting 

 of the Zoological Society a specimen of the Barred Warbler which 

 had been shot many years previously in a garden near Queen's 

 College, Cambridge. Attention having been drawn to this species 

 as a straggler to Great Britain, a second example, an immature 

 female, was shot and recognized by the Rev. H. II. Slater, as it was 

 skulking in an elder-hedge by a jiotato-garden in some sand-hills on 

 the Yorkshire coast, on August 28th 1884. On September 4th of 

 the same year, Mr. F. D. Power shot another immature female in 

 some scrub at the base of Blakeney sand-hills, Norfolk. Both these 



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