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Baedeker, Tab. 51, fig. 11. Taczanowski, Tab. XLIX, fig. 1. Seebohm, 

 Br. Birds, pi. 10: id. Col. Fig. pi. 52. Cat. Eggs. Br. Mus., IV. pi. 

 VIII, fig. 13. Frohawk, Br. Birds, I. pi. II, fig. 42—44. Dresser, pi. — , 

 fig. 16—18. Howard, Br. Warblers, pi. Ill, fig. 13—18. Nest: O.Lee, 

 IV p. 44. 



British Local Names: Nettle creeper, Peggy (gen.). Foreign 

 Names: Bohemia: Penice slavikoiva. Denmark and Norway: Havesanger. 

 Finland: Lehtokerttu. France: Fauvette des jardins. Germany: Oarten- 

 grasmiicke. Helgoland: Orii tinger. Holland: Tuinfiuiter. Hungary: 

 Kerti Poszdta. Poland: Fokrywka ogrodowa. Russia: Travnik. Sweden: 

 Hdcksdrigare. Spain: P'mzoleta. 



Sylvia salicaria (L.\ Newton, ed. Yarrell, I. p. 414. Dresser, B. 

 of Europe, II. p. 429. 8. hortensis Bechst. Dresser, Man. Pal. Birds, 

 p. 78. Saunders, Man. p. 49. S. borin borin (Bodd.) Hartert, Vog. Pal. 

 Fauna, p. 582. 



Breeding Range: The British Isles and Continental Europe, ex- 

 cepting the extreme N. of Scandinavia and Russia and the S. Italian and 

 S. Balkan peninsulas. [Also N. W. Africa and W. Siberia.] 

 British In England this species is generally distributed, but its numbers 



Isles. ^g^j.y j^j^ different seasons and in some districts of S. England it is much 

 less numerous than the Blackcap (e. g. Berkshire, where the proportion 

 is about 1 to 10), while on the other hand in the Midlands and N. it is 

 decidedly more plentiful. In Cornwall it is confined tho the valleys of the 

 Tamar and Lynher and is scarce in N. Devon; while in Wales it is 

 scarce and local along the N. coast from Carnavon and Anglesey to N. 

 Flint and Denbigh, becoming commoner in wooded valleys further S., 

 but absent from Pembroke, though known to breed in Cardigan, Brecon, 

 Radnor and Glamorgan. In Scotland it is by no means general, but is 

 commoner than the Blackcap in some of the southern areas (Solway, 

 Forth and Clyde), and has bred in Tay, but is only of accidental occur- 

 rence in Dee and on the Outer Hebrides, and apparently absent from the 

 mainland N. of the Great Glen. In Ireland its distribution is curious, 

 for it visits localities in all four provinces, though very local and little 

 known. It has however been proved to breed in Fermanagh, Sligo, 

 Roscommon, Longford, Down, Kerry, Clare, and Tipperary, and probably 

 in other districts also. 

 Con- In Scandinavia the Garden Warbler has been found breeding up to 



70° N. in Norway and to 67 — 68" in Sweden. In Russia its N. range 

 includes S. and Mid. Finland, the Olonetz Government, the Archangel 

 district and to lat 62" in the Urals. South of these localities it seems 

 to be generally common as far as Caucasia and the Crimea, though scarce 



tlnental 

 Europe. 



