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but it has been ascertained by careful observers, 

 who have dissected specimens, that the males always 

 arrive in this country before the females. The 

 same has been observed of the Nightingale, Black- 

 cap, and some other species. 



To some of the older authors, as Willughby, 

 Pennant, and Montagu, this bird was known as the 

 Greater Pettychaps, while they bestowed the name 

 of Lesser Pettychaps presumably from its resem- 

 blance in miniature to the Chiffchaff. The Petty- 

 chaps of Gilbert White, however, referred to in 

 his fifty-seventh Letter to Daines Barrington, is 

 evidently, from his description of its appearance 

 and habits, not the Garden Warbler, but the Lesser 

 Whitethroat. 



Throughout England the Garden Warbler is 

 generally distributed, but seems to be commoner 

 in the south and south-east ; towards the west it 

 is much rarer. Mr. A. G. More, in his essay on 

 the " Distribution of Birds in Great Britain during 

 the Nesting Season" (Ibis, 1865, p. 25), refers to it 

 as scarce in Cornwall and Pembrokeshire, and 

 absent from Wales. The late Mr. Rodd, however, 

 in his recently-published Birds of Cornwall, includes 



