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The young are hatched by the end of May, or the be- 

 ginning of June. Mr. Sweet says this species soon become 

 very tame in confinement. 



The Willow Warbler is plentiful in the counties around 

 London, and in a westerly direction visits Hampshire, Wilt- 

 shire, and Dorsetshire. Colonel Montagu states that at the 

 date of his observations, this bird did not go so far west as 

 Devonshire and Cornwall, and there is no reason to suppose 

 that he was mistaken ; but from whatever cause it may arise, 

 this bird is now become a constant summer visiter, not 

 only to Devonshire and Cornwall, but to Wales : it was 

 seen also in the summer of 1834 by a party of naturalists 

 in the district of Connamara in the west of Ireland ; and 

 according to Mr. Thompson of Belfast, it is a regular sum- 

 mer visiter to the North of Ireland. In a direction east- 

 ward and northward of London, this bird is plentiful in 

 Essex, Suffolk, Norfolk, Derbyshire, Durham, and North- 

 umberland. It is probably found in various parts of Scot- 

 land, since Mr. Selby observed it in Sutherlandshirc in the 

 summer of 1834, even to the extremity of the island, and 

 says, " it was noticed wherever copse or brushwood abound- 

 ed. About Tongue it was very plentiful, and the same at 

 Laing, the margins of Loch Naver, and the wooded banks of 

 Loch Assynt, but it was the only species of the genus Sj/lvia 

 seen there."" 



I have been unable to trace this bird to the Scottish 

 islands ; yet it visits Denmark, is known to arrive in Swe- 

 den before the end of April, and was seen by Mr. Hewit- 

 son in Norway. On the Continent of Europe, in summer, 

 this bird is common : it is plentiful in Spain and Provence ; 

 appears about Genoa in April, and remains till September ; 

 and is common in Italy. It was observed at Trebizond by 

 Mr, Strickland ; and Mr. Gould states, that he has seen 

 specimens from the western portions of India. 



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