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tachment and confidence, after being twice so rudely dis- 

 turbed." 



The young are hatched by the end of May, or the 

 beginning of June. Mr. Sweet says this species soon be- 

 comes very tame in confinement. 



The "Willow Warbler is plentiful in the counties around 

 London, and in a westerly direction visits Hampshire, 

 Wiltshire, and Dorsetshire. Colonel Montagu states that, 

 at the date of his observations, this bird did not go so far 

 west as Devonshire and Cornwall, and there is no reason 

 to suppose that he was mistaken ; but from whatever 

 cause it may arise, this bird is now become a constant 

 summer visitor, not only to Devonshire and Cornwall, but 

 to Wales : it was seen also in the summer of 1834- by a 

 party of naturalists in the district of Connamara in the 

 west of Ireland ; and according to Mr. Thompson of Bel- 

 fast, it is a regular summer visitor to the north of Ireland. 

 In a direction eastward and northward of London, this bird 

 is plentiful in Essex, Suffolk, Norfolk, Derbyshire, Dur- 

 ham, and Northumberland. It is probably found in va- 

 rious parts of Scotland, since Mr. Selby observed it in 

 Sutherlandshire in the summer of 1834, even to the ex- 

 tremity of the island, and says, " it was noticed wherever 

 copse or brushwood abounded. About Tongue it was very 

 plentiful, and the same at Laing, the margins of Loch 

 Naver, and the wooded banks of Loch Assynt, but it was 

 the only species of the genus Sylvia seen there." 



I have been unable to trace this bird to the Scottish 

 islands ; yet it visits Denmark, is known to arrive in Swe- 

 den before the end of April, and was seen by Mr. Hewit- 

 son in Norway. On the continent of Europe, in summer, 

 this bird is common: it is plentiful in Spain and Pro- 

 vence ; appears about Genoa in April, and remains till 

 September ; is common in Italy, and is found at Corfu, 



