FIRST APPEARANCES OF BIRDS, INSECTS, ETC. 153 



July 22 15 to 20 moving through sallows to look for 

 food at Hay moor Bottom. 



July 23 Many at Badbury Rings. (E.H.C.) 



July 30 A few seen at Arish Mell. 



Aug. 1 At Arish Mell I had a very close view of Phyl- 

 loscopus trochilus and saw it catch a Tortrix 

 at rest on the underside of the leaf of an ash 

 tree. I was only about three feet from it. It 

 was very tame. 



Aug. 6 Several at Arish Mell. (W.P.C.) 



Aug. 12-13 Many on the Under cliff, Swanage. 



Aug. 20 Numbers still on the Undercliff at Swanage, 

 (W.P.C. and E.H.C.) 



Sep. 3 Two seen at Canford Bottom. (W.P.C.) 



Sep. 22. One seen at Canford Bottom. (W.P.C.) 



Oct. 7 One seen at Canford Bottom. (W.P.C.) 



(34) Phylloscopus sibilatrix. The Wood Warbler. 



1916 July 22. The Rev. E. F. Linton wrote me for 

 information as to the song of a bird he had 

 heard round Edmondsham in several places 

 during the early summer. His description of 

 the song was so accurate that I have no doubt 

 as to the bird being Phylloscopus sibilatrix. 



Arrival, 



May 20 A single male seen at Berewood. (W.P.C.) 



Nesting. 

 June 3 



At Canford a male was singing well, and we 

 afterwards watched the female to her nest. The 

 nest was the usual little domed structure of 

 moss and leaves and was placed in the bramble, 

 under a spruce fir. There was no run to the nest, 

 and it was barely visible without moving the 

 brambles that were creeping over the ground. 



