144 GRASSHOPPER WARBLER. 



In distribution it is not uncommon in various 

 parts of England, so far north as Northumber- 

 land ; and, according to Mr Thompson, it is 

 occasionally met with in Ireland. In Scotland it 

 is more rare, and perhaps does not reach north 

 of the Firth of Forth. We have it stated as 

 coming near Edinburgh,* and we possess a single 

 specimen, shot near New Abbey, in Galloway, 

 for which we were indebted to the kindness of 

 Dr Bushnan, and the individual who procured it 

 was aware of its occasional occurrence. In the 

 middle and southern parts of Europe it is also 

 not unfrequent, but we have no records of its 

 farther range. 



This species more resembles the first in the distri- 

 bution of the colours of the plumage, but the struc- 

 ture of the hallux and hinder claw is not nearly 

 so strong, which may be accounted for from the 

 difference in its habits from those of either of the 

 last. The colour of the upper parts of the 

 plumage is deep oil green; the edges of the 

 quills paler, and having the centre of each 

 feather, except those on the rump, umber brown ; 

 the chin and centre of the belly are pure white , 

 the breast, flanks, and under tail coverts pale oil 

 green ; the feathers immediately below the white 

 of the chin spotted with a narrow triangular spot 

 of umber brown ; the under tail coverts have 

 the shaft yellowish brown. The sexes are similar 

 in plumage. 



* Rennie. 



