106 RARE VISITANTS. 
tailed Warbler (Sylvia erythaca),” six specimens of 
which are stated to have been taken at Plymouth, 
and to have occurred there “for the first time in 
Britain ” (Bellamy, Nat. Hist. South Devon, .p. 205). 
It has been suggested to me, however, by Mr. Gurney 
that these are more likely to have been the Black 
Redstart (uticilla tithys), which occurs not unfre- 
quently about Plymouth. 
ORPHEAN WARBLER. Sylvia orphea, Temminck. 
Hab. Central and Southern Europe; India and South- 
western Asia; North Africa. 
Two seen, one shot, Weatherby, Yorkshire, 6th July, 1848 : 
Sir W. Milner, Zoologist, 1849, p. 2588, and 1851, 
pp- 3107-3111; Yarrell, Hist. Brit. Birds, v. p. 343. 
A young bird caught near Holloway, Middlesex, June 1866, 
and kept alive for six months: Harting, The Field, 22nd 
April, 1871. 
A nest and four eggs believed to belong to this species were 
taken in Notton Wood, near Wakefield, in June 1864: 
Harting, /. c. 
YELLOW-BILLED CHIFF CHAFF. Phyllopneuste hy- 
polais (Linneus). 
Hab. Central and Southern Europe; North Africa. 
One, Eythorne, near Dover, 15th June, 1848: Dr. Plomley, 
Zoologist, 1848, pp. 2228, 2346; Yarrell, Hist. Brit. Birds, 
vol. 1. p. 857. 
One, Dunsinea, co. Dublin: Blake Knox, Zoologist, 1870, p.2018. 
Obs. Yarrell has pointed out that this species is the 
true hypolais of continental authors, and that the 
