64 A HAND-LIST OF BRITISH BIRDS. 



DISTRIBUTION. England and Wales. Summer-resident (late April 

 to Sept.). By nature of its habitat local, but fairly distributed 

 throughout south and midland England, except in north Devon, 

 Cornwall, and Scilly Isles, where very rare. In south Wales very 

 local (numerous only at Llangorse Lake), and not found in Pembroke, 

 and in north Wales very local and rare except on Salop border, 

 and not recorded Anglesey. In Derby breeds only in extreme 

 south, but ranges further north on each side, being found in Lanes, 

 and Yorks, but very locally, especially in north, where it is rare, but 

 breeds in small numbers as far as Craven district, Nidd Valley and 

 Ripon (once in Wensleydale) in west, and Redcar in east. Has 

 been recorded as nesting once or twice in Lake District and Durham, 

 but otherwise unknown north of Yorks. Scotland. Two, Fair 

 Isle, Sept. 24, 1906, and autumn, 1909. Ireland. One, Rockabill 

 Light (Dublin), Oct. 20, 1908. [One said to have been shot 

 near Dublin 1843, and another to have been heard on the 

 Shannon.] 



DISTRIBUTION. Abroad. South Sweden and Russian Baltic 

 Provinces to Mediterranean and north-west Africa, wintering in 

 Africa. Replaced by closely- allied form from Lower Volga to 

 Turkestan. 



ACROCEPHALUS PALUSTRIS 



137. Acrocephalus palustris (Bechst.) THE MARSH- 

 WARBLER. 



SYLVIA PALUSTRIS Bechstein, Orn. Taschenb., p. 186 (1803 Germany). 

 Acrocephalus palustris (Bechstein), Yarrell, i, p. 373 ; in, p. viii ; Saunders, 

 p. 81. 



DISTRIBUTION. England. Summer-resident arriving late May or 

 early June. Apparently very scarce and local, but distribution 

 very little known. Has been recorded as nesting in : Somerset, 

 several districts regularly ; Wilts., once, 1900 ; Hants., 1907 

 and twice previously ; Sussex, once, 1903 ; Kent, twice, 1905 

 and 1909 ; Surrey, once, 1907 ; Gloucester, frequently ; Oxon., 

 annually for several years ; Bucks., twice in 1909 ; Cambs., 

 1909 and once previously ; Norfolk, possibly once about 1880 ; 

 Warwick, 30 or 40 years ago ; Worcester, in some num- 

 bers. Scotland. One St. Kilda (O. Hebrides), Sept. or early 

 Oct., 1910. 



DISTRIBUTION. Abroad. Europe from Denmark and Russian 

 Baltic Provinces to south Spain (?), Italy, Montenegro, and 

 Bulgaria, probably also north-west Africa, east to Ural (Oren- 

 burg) and Caspian Sea. Winters in Africa, south to Natal and 

 Pondoland. 



