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Two instances only of the occurrence in England of this 

 prettily-marked Warbler were formerly recorded. The 

 first bird was shot on the boundary hedge of Newcastle 

 Town Moor in May, 1826, and was presented by Mr. 

 Thomas Embleton to the Museum of the Literary and 

 Philosophical Society of Newcastle. This circumstance 

 was, I believe, first noticed by G. T. Fox, Esq., of Dur- 

 ham, in his Synopsis of the Newcastle Museum, page 298, 

 and afterwards in the third volume of the Zoological 

 Journal, page 497. By the influence and kindness of 

 that gentleman, this specimen, with some other birds of 

 great rarity and interest, were exhibited a few years ago 

 in London, at one of the evening meetings of the Zoolo- 

 gical Club of the Linnean Society. The occurrence of 

 the second specimen is recorded in the second volume of 

 the Naturalist, page 275, and is said to have happened in 

 Dorsetshire. In September, 1852, a Blue-throated War- 

 bler was shot near Whimple, South Devon, as recorded 

 by the Honourable T. L. Powys in the Zoologist. 



Soon after the publication of that part of the work 

 which contained this species, I received a letter from 

 Plumptre Methuen, Esq., informing me that a specimen 

 killed near Birmingham was in his possession ; and in 

 October, 1841, J. H. Gurney, Esq., of Norwich, sent me 

 word that he had just obtained a specimen for his own 

 collection which had but a very few days before been 

 picked up dead near Yarmouth. In September, 1844, 

 two birds, one old, the other a young bird of the year, 

 and both then unskinned, were sent for my inspection by 

 Mr. Gardner, of Oxford Street. These birds were shot 

 in the Isle of Sheppy. 



This species visits the European Continent from the 

 south in the breeding season. It is observed in Italy on 

 its passage northward in April, and again on its return in 



