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Eggs which I got when on an expedition to Cam- 
bridgeshire fens from one of the fenmen (who had just 
captured the bird) with the nest made solely of sedge, are 
decidedly larger than either the Grasshopper, or Dart- 
ford Warblers. 
THE BARRED WARBLER. 
(Sytvia NISORIA.) 
Admitted to the B.O.U. List. 
Exhibited by Newton after the publication of 
Vol 1. 
Admitted by Seebohm. 
In addition to the occurrence at Cambridge when it was 
shot by a Porter of Queen’s College forty years ago ; and 
made known for the first time by Professor Newton in 
1879; and concerning the authenticity of which occur- 
rence Mr. Seebohm expresses himself satisfied. 
A second occurrence was recorded in November, 
1884, in ‘ Nature” as having been exhibited at a Meeting 
of Naturalists. 
Since writing the above I find in the ‘‘ Addenda”’ to 
Mr. Seebohm’s last volume “Two additional examples 
of the Barred Warbler (Sylvia Nisoria) were shot in our 
islands in 1884, one on the 28th August at Spurn point 
(Sclater Zool., 1884, p. 489) the other on September 
4, at Cley, on the north coast of Norfolk (Sclater Zool., 
1884, p. 493-) 
Admitted by H. Saunders in his preface to Vol iii. of 
Yarrell’s British Birds. 
