TURDIDM— WARBLERS. 



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the year, especially in the Wanstead Park Woods." It breeds not uncommonly in 

 both the Colchester and Paglesham districts (Laver). At Harwich it is scarce 

 during the breeding season, though often numerous during migration (Kerry). 

 Mr. Hope writes : Migratory individuals arrive " on the Essex coast in vast 

 flocks and singly about the loth of October ; I have had them fly aboard when 

 off the Sunk lightship, so tame that they would hop all over one, apparently 

 looking for water to drink ; it breeds at Havering." 



Fire-crest : Regulus ignicapillus. 

 A rare and accidental visitor. 



A specimen " taken by a bird- 

 catcher, at Epping, 26th Novem- 

 ber, 1878, is preserved * « « in the 

 British Museum " (Buxton — 47. 91). 

 Mr. J. H. Gurney, jun., records (40. 

 225) 1888, the occurrence of five 

 specimens (three of which are in the 

 possession of a Mr. Thos. Sorrell) 

 in the month of November, some 

 years ago, among about seventy Gold- 

 crests taken on the Galloper L.V. Mr. 

 E. R. Green, of Ilford, informs me 

 that he shot specimens "in a small 

 wood close to Barking Side," but, 

 though preserved, they were accidentally destroyed 



FIRE-CREST, y^. 



ChiffchafF: Phylloscopus rufus. Locally, "Oven-builder." 



A regular summer visitant, though by no means common and 

 decidedly local in Essex. Its name is derived from its familiar note. 

 Of all our spring migrants, it is the earliest to arrive, being sometimes 

 heard before the middle of March. In 1878, Dr. Bree both saw 

 and heard it in his garden at Colchester, as early as March 5th (29. 

 Mar. 9). In 188 1, I heard the first on April 4th, near Audley End, 

 In 1883, I did not hear the first here until April 7th. 



At Sudbury, it is only a very occasional visitor (Grubb — 39). Round Pagles- 

 ham it is common (Wiseman). Round Harwich it is also " common," and may 

 be heard every spring in the Wrabness woods (Kerry). It is common in both 

 the Colchester and Paglesham districts (Laver). In the extensive woods about 

 Danbury and in the Writtle and Blackmore Highwoods, it is fairly abundant, but 

 I have never once heard its note round my own home, at Chignal St. James, for 

 several years past. Mr. Sackett has taken undoubted eggs at Orsett. 



Willow- Warbler : Phylloscopus trochilus. 



A very common summer visitor, arriving usually about the first 

 week in April, and remaining until the middle of September. It 

 breeds, I believe, abundantly throughout the county. It is very 



