172 THE BIRDS OF BERKS AND BLCKS, 



out shooting Redwings in company with a man named 

 Stanniforth, who had charge of Cookham Lock 

 at the time, and he was much surprised to see what 

 he thought to^be a female of the Common Redstart 

 sitting on a post. It was snowing hard at the time, 

 and he drew Stanniforth's attention to the singular 

 fact. On mentioning the circumstance to Mr. Gould 

 shortly after, that gentleman told him that it must 

 have been a Black Redstart, as this species only 

 visits us in winter, when the Common Redstart 

 has entirely left us. Mr. Briggs says the bird seemed 

 a little darker than the females he had before seen, 

 but he attributed this to the dusky appearance which 

 the state of the weather would naturally give the 

 bird. For further information respecting the Black 

 Redstart I must refer you to Mr. Gould's " Birds 

 of Great Britain," where the subject is thoroughly 

 treated of.' 



Savi's Warbler {Salkaria hiscinoides) . The 

 notices of the occurrence of this rare Warbler in 

 England are few and far between. The species is 

 included in this catalogue upon the authority of Lord 

 Clifton, who published the following note in the 

 Zoologist for April, 1867 : ' Last June (1866), in the 

 neighbourhood of Eton, I saw a bird which I am 

 pretty sure was Savi's W^arbler : it was in a low hedge 

 which I am in the habit of passing nearly every 

 morning, and the favourite resort of Sedge Warblers, 

 close to the river Thames : having heard a harsh 



