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[The southern race, P. proregulus newtoni Gaetke, breeds in the Himalayas 

 from Kashmir to Butan and also in Chuanche and Gansu. Egg figured, Dresser, 

 pi. — , fig. 24. Captain Cock describes the nest as domed partially and built of moss 

 and lichens, lined profusely with feathers and fragments of thin birch bark, and 

 placed on boughs of pine trees from 6 to 40 ft. above the ground. Eggs 5, like 

 those of the N. race. Average size (!0 eggs) 13.82 X 10.77, Max. 14.2 X 11-3, 

 Min. 13 5 X 1' a^nd 14 X 10.3. Breeding season, end of May and early June in 

 Kashmir. Phylloscopus subviridis (Brooks) , has once been obtained in E. Russia. 

 It breeds in Afghanistan, Kashmir, etc. Cf. Ibis, 1909, p. 124.] 



122. Radde's Bush Warbler, Herbivocula schwarzi (Radde). 



Lusciniola schwarzi (Radde). Dresser, Man. Pal. Birds, p. 127. Saunders, 

 Man. p. 73. Herbivocula sclmmrzi (Radde). Hartert, Vog. Pal. Fauna, 

 p. 530. 



Breeding Range: From mid Siberia E. to Ussuria and Saghalin. 

 (Has once occurred in Lincolnshire, Oct. 1, 1898). 

 Bis- The range of this species is stated by Pleske to extend from Kul- 



tnbution, ^ . j^ Baikal to Ussuria and Saghalin, but Godlewski records it as 



etc. ' '=' ' 



singing in early August between Irkutsk and Tomsk. Schrenk met with 

 it on the Amur, and Nicolski in the forests of S. W. Saghalin. 



It arrives at its breeding haunts early in June, and haunts thick 

 scrub, but as yet no information is available with regard to its nest and 

 eggs, which are still unknown. 



123. Cetti's Warbler, Cettia cetti (Marm). 



Plate 21, fig. 27—30 (Andalucia). 



Eggs: Thienemann, Fortpfl. Taf. XXI, fig. 3, a, b. Naumannia, 

 1858, Taf. 2, fig. 5, a— i. Baedeker, Tab. 19, fig. 24. Dresser, pi.—, 

 fig. 35, 36, 41, 42. Krause, pi. — , fig. 1—36. 



Foreign Names: France: Bouscarle. Greece: AedonaJd. Italy: 



Busignuolo di fiumi. Portugal: Rouxinol bravo. Spain: Mascareta. 



Cettia cettii (Marm.). Dresser, B. of Europe, II, p. 639 and Man. Pal. 



Birds, p. 137. C. cetti cetti (Marm.). Hartert, Vog. Pal. Fauna, p. 537. 



Breeding Range: The Iberian, Italian and Balkan Peninsulas, 



S. France, and the Mediterranean Islands; probably S. Russia. [Also 



N. W. Africa and Asia Minor: has occurred in Sussex, May 12, 1904.] 



Con- This short winged and skulking species is widely but locally dis- 



tinentai tributed in the Iberian peninsula wherever there are thick bramble brakes 



^""P®- Qj. tamarisks close to the banks of rivers and streams, and also in the 



swamps, especially where there are bushes growing, from the Bay of 



Biscay to the Mediterranean. It is found also in southern France N. 



to the Indre Department, but more especially in those bordering the 



