418 BRITISH BIRDS. 
SYLVIA GALACTODES. 
RUFOUS WARBLER. 
(PxLate 10.) 
Turdus arundinaceus, Linn., var. 8, Lath. Ind. Orn. i, p. 334 (1790). 
Sylvia galactotes, Temm. Man. @Orn.i. p. 182 (1820); et auctorum plurimorum 
— (Gray), (Bonaparte), (Heuglin), (Degland §& Gerbe), (Gould), (Newton), 
(Dresser), Sc. 
Turdus rubiginosus, Meyer, Taschenb. Zus.u. Ber. p. 66 (1822). 
Aedon galactodes (Temm.), Bote, Isis, 1826, p. 972. 
Sylvia rubiginosa, Zemm. Man. d’ Orn. iii. p. 129 (1835). 
Agrobates galactotes (Zemm.), Swains. Classif. B. ii. p, 241 (1887). 
Salicaria galactotes (Temm.), Gould, B. Ew. ii. pl. 112 (1837). 
Erythropygia galactodes (Temm.), Bonap. Comp. List B. Eur. §& N. Amer. p. 18 
(1838). 
Aedon rubiginosa (Zemm.), Degl. Orn. Eur. i. p. 567 (1849). 
Calamoherpe galactodes (Temm.), Schl. Vog. Nederl. p. 141 (1854). 
Agrobates rubiginosus (Temum.), Dubois, Ors, Ew. pl. 74 (1862). 
The Rufous Warbler can only be considered a _ very accidental 
straggler to the British Islands. The first specimen was shot by Sways- 
land, the well-known bird-stuffer of Brighton, in the autumn of 1854, and 
recorded in the ‘ Zoologist’ for that year (p. 4511) by Mr. Borrer. This 
gentleman writes that as Swaysland “was driving on the South Downs 
about six miles from Brighton, near a part of the Downs known as 
Plumpton Bosthill, he noticed a bird which he at first took for a cream- 
coloured variety of the Nightingale. Having no gun, he proceeded about 
four miles to obtain one, and, returning to the spot, found the bird about 
twenty yards from where he first observed it. It was very wary, flying 
always to the further side of some furze bushes, and settling on the side 
furthest from him, mounting into the air some fifteen yards. Swaysland 
describes its flight as resembling that of the yonng of the Red-backed 
Shrike. He at last got a shot at about forty yards, and killed it: this 
was on the 16th of September last. The bird, on dissection, proved to be a 
male, and would shortly have moulted, one or two young feathers of the 
primaries having made their appearance on each wing: these are darker 
than the old ones. The feathers also on the back and tail, especially the 
central ones of the latter, are much worn.” In 1859 the late Mr. G. R. 
Gray writes, in the ‘Annals and Magazine of Natural History’ (iv. p. 399), 
of the second specimen, stating that it had ‘ been killed near Start Point, 
South Devonshire, on the 25th of September last. It was shot by William 
D. Llewellyn, Esq., by whom it was presented to the British Museum. 
That gentleman observed that its flight much resembled that of a Lark, 
