DARTFORI) WARBLER. 315 



kind I ever heard ; but in part resembles that of the Stone- 

 chat." 



Besides the localities already enumerated, the Dartford 

 Warbler has been found in North Devon and, though rarely, 

 in Cornwall, specimens having been obtained at Truro, Fal- 

 mouth, and Penzance ; it has also been taken in Worcester- 

 shire ; but I have not heard that it has, as yet, been observed 

 in Ireland. In a letter containing notices of the occurrence 

 of rare birds in Leicestershire, with which I have been very 

 lately favoured by Henry Bickley, Esq. of Melton Mowbray, 

 I find that the Dartford Warbler has occurred in that coun- 

 ty within the last two years ; but this is the most northern 

 locality in which it has been obtained. On the European 

 Continent this bird does not go so high as Germany or Hol- 

 land. It is found in France ; but is most plentiful in Pro- 

 vence, Spain, and Italy. In Provence it is observed to fre- 

 quent cabbage gardens, whence probably its name of Pitte- 

 c/iou or Pit-chou. In Genoa it remains only from April to 

 September. 



The beak is slender, and nearly black, particularly towards 

 the point ; the edges of the upper mandible, and the base of 

 the lower mandible, reddish yellow : irides reddish ; head, 

 cheeks, neck, back, and upper tail-coverts, greyish black ; the 

 wing-coverts, wing, and tail-feathers, blackish brown, with 

 rather lighter-coloured edges ; tlie chin chestnut brown, with 

 specks of dull white ; throat, breast, and sides, chestnut 

 brown, without spots ; the edge of the wing between the 

 carpal joint and the spurious wing-feathers, white ; belly 

 white ; under surface of the wings, under tail-coverts, and the 

 under surface of the tail-feathers, slate-grey ; the tail in shape 

 cuneiform, the outer feathers on each side being three-eighths 

 of an inch shorter than those in the middle, and edged as 

 well as tipped with lighter grey ; legs and toes pale reddish 

 brown ; claws darker brown. 



