6O OUR SUMMER MIGRANTS. 



seated the birds, that the males invariably arrive 

 in this country before the females. Pennant, 

 Montagu, and other old authors, called this bird 

 the Greater Pettychaps, while they bestowed the 

 name of Lesser Pettychaps presumably from 

 its resemblance in miniature upon the Chiff- 

 chaff. 



Throughout England the Garden Warbler 

 appears to be pretty generally distributed. Mr. 

 A. G. More, however, in his essay on the Dis- 

 tribution of Birds in Great Britain during the 

 nesting season (" Ibis," 1865, p. 25), speaks of 

 it as scarce in Cornwall and Pembrokeshire, and 

 absent from Wales. Mr. Rodd, on the other 

 hand, characterizes the Garden Warbler as a 

 summer visitant to East Cornwall, and says it 

 " breeds annually in the woods at Trebartha, in 

 North Hill, from whence specimens of its nest 

 and eggs have been received." 1 He adds also 

 that it has once been met with near Penzance ; 

 and that in the autumn of 1849 several speci- 



1 See " List of British Birds, as a Guide to the Ornithology 

 of Cornwall," 2nd edition, 1869, p. 15. 



