66 A HAND -LIST OF BRITISH BIRDS. 



DISTRIBUTION. England. Seventeen authentic examples obtained, 

 and several others seen, chiefly Sept., but also Aug. and Oct., as 

 follows : Cornwall (Eddystone), one ; Hants, two ; Isle of Wight, 

 three ; Sussex, five and several seen ; Kent, one ; Norfolk, four and 

 one seen ; Leicester one. Ireland. One Bull Bock Light (Cork) 

 Sept. 20, 1903. 



DISTRIBUTION. Abroad. Central and south Europe (but absent 

 from south of Balkan Peninsula), and north-west Africa. In south- 

 east Europe and Egypt on migration ; appears to occur in winter in 

 north-west Africa, but winter- quarters not known for certain. 



HYPOLAIS ICTERINA 



141. Hypolais icterina (Vieill.) THE ICTERINE WARBLER. 



SYLVIA ICTERINA Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., nouv. ed., xi, p. 194 

 (1817 France). 



Hypolais hypolais, Seebohm, Hist. Brit. B., i, p. 381 ; and others. 

 Hypolais icterina (Vieillot), Yarrell, i, p. 360 ; Saunders, p. 75. 



DISTRIBUTION. England. Fourteen obtained and a few others 

 seen, mostly Sept., but three June, two May, and one April. Isle 

 of Wight (St. Catherine's Light), one ; Sussex, two ; Kent, two 

 obtained, one seen (Kentish Knock Light) ; Norfolk, seven pro- 

 cured, two seen (all north coast) ; Yorks., one taken, another seen ; 

 Northumberland one. Scotland. One Fair Isle, 1908, one Lerwick 

 (Shetlands), May 15, 1910. Ireland. One, Dunsinea (Dublin), 

 June 8, 1856. 



DISTRIBUTION. Abroad. Greater part of Europe (except extreme 

 north, west France, Spain, and Greece), and north-west Africa 

 (north Algeria) ; wintering in tropical Africa. 



HYPOLAIS POLYGLOTTA 



142. Hypolais polyglotta (Vieill.) - - THE MELODIOUS 

 WARBLER. 



SYLVIA POLYGLOTTA Vieillot, Nouv. Diet., nouv. ed., xi, p. 200 (1817 



France). 



Hypolais polyglotta (Vieillot), Saunders, p. 77. 



DISTRIBUTION. England. Only three obtained. Male, Burwash 

 (Sussex), April 30, 1897 (Saunders, p. 77). Male, Ninfield (Sussex), 

 May 10, 1900 (W. R. Butterfield, Ibis, 1900, p. 569; cf. Brit. B., i, 

 p. 83). Male near Sandplace, Looe (Cornwall), May 12, 1905 

 (J. Clark, ZooL, 1907, p. 282; cf. Brit. B., i, p. 127). This, or the 

 Icterine, several times reported as seen and heard singing, notably 

 in Pembroke in summer 1886, and in south-east Devon near Lyme 



