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it as a summer visitant to the eastern portion of 

 that county, and observes that it breeds annually 

 in the woods at Trebartha, Northhill. He only 

 once met with it at Penzance, but it has several 

 times been observed at Scilly with other migratory 

 warblers in autumn. Dr. Bullmore, also, in his 

 Cornish Fauna, p. 17, confirms Mr. Rodd's state- 

 ment that it is a summer visitant to East Corn- 

 wall. 



Its alleged absence from Wales is remarkable, 

 if true, for it has been met with in various parts of 

 Ireland, as, for example, in the counties of Dublin, 

 Wicklow, Fermanagh, Tipperary, and Cork. We 

 are inclined to think that this bird will be found to 

 be a regular summer visitant to suitable localities 

 throughout Wales, and that the reason of its not 

 having been yet observed there is that the number 

 of resident naturalists there is so small in comparison 

 with other parts of Great Britain that it has escaped 

 notice. 



The limit of the Garden Warbler's range north- 

 wards in the British Islands has not been satisfac- 

 torily ascertained. That it is found in many parts 

 of the South of Scotland we know from the observa- 



