THE WOOD WARBLER 
PHYLLOSCOPUS SIBILATRIX 
LocaL names in surrounding counties : 
Sratus IN British AvirAuNA: A local and somewhat 
capricious summer visitor to all suitable districts in 
England and Wales; much rarer in Scotland, and only 
found in a few places in Ireland. 
RapiaL DisTRIBUTION WITHIN FIFTEEN MILES OF ST. 
Paut’s: Of the Willow Warblers the present species is 
decidedly the least common within the Metropolitan area. 
It is everywhere local, and chiefly confined to the more out- 
lying suburbs, where woods are plentiful. I have records 
of the Wood Warbler from Richmond and Wimbledon ; 
it is also said to frequent the vicinity of Dulwich. In 
Middlesex, Bushey, Osterley, Wembley, Harrow, Pinner, 
Ruislip, and Enfield may be mentioned as haunts. It 
has also been recorded from the Hampstead district, and 
has been observed in Highgate Woods. It is a very local 
visitor to the Epping area, and may possibly be a regular 
summer migrant to the vicinity of Wanstead. Of Kent I 
possess little authentic information, but I have repeatedly 
heard the sibilant song of the Wood Warbler in the area of 
the Crays and near High Elms, as well as a little further 
west, between Shirley and Croydon. During migration 
this pretty Warbler occasionally pays fleeting visits to 
gardens and private grounds much nearer to the city, 
but as it is silent in autumn it is often overlooked 
in the tops of tall trees, or mistaken for its smaller 
congeners. 
There are fortunately many noble woodlands well 
within the fifteen-mile radius which offer a congenial 
summer retreat to the Wood Warbler—the largest and 
brightest coloured of the three little species known 
collectively as Willow Warblers. ‘The favourite haunt of 
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