104 RARE VISITANTS. 



One near Yarmouth, 21st Sept. 1841 (red spot) : Yarrell, op. 



cit. 



Two, Isle of Sheppy, Sept. 1844 : Yarrell, op. cit. 

 One, Whimple, South Devon, Sept. 1852 : Powys, Zoologist, 



1852, p. 3709. 



One near Worthing, Sussex, May 1853 : Stephenson, Zoolo- 

 gist, 1853, p. 3907. 

 One near Brighton, Sept. 1855 : Cavafy, Naturalist, 1855, 



p. 264. 

 One near Lowestoft, 15th May, 1856 (red spot) : Stevenson, 



Birds of Norfolk, vol. i. p. 96. 

 One, Worthing, Sussex, April 1858 : Wilson, Zoologist, 1859, 



p. 6605. 

 One, Brighton, October 1862: Pratt, Zoologist, 1862, p. 



8281. 

 One, Ventnor, Isle of Wight, resident from 1865 to 1867 



(white spot) : Hadfield, Zoologist, 1865, pp. 9605, 9724, 



9846; 1866, pp. 172, 176, 218, 445; 1867, p. 732. 

 One captured on board a fishing-boat off Aberdeen, 16th 



May, 1872 (red spot) : B. Gray, MS. 



Obs. This bird has not been met with either in 

 Scotland or Ireland. 



MAESH WAEBLEE. Salicaria palustris (Bechstein). 

 Hob. Europe, South-west Asia; North Africa. 



One, Wicken Fen, Cambridge, summer 1861 : Saville, Zoo- 

 logist, 1861, p. 7755 ; G. B. Gray, Cat. Brit. Birds in Brit, 

 Mus. p. 45 (1863) ; Alston, Zoologist, 1866, p. 496. 



Two, Whittlesford, Cambridge : Harting, The Field, 6th May, 

 1871*. 



Three near Yarmouth, June 1869 : Harting, /. c. 



* An article " On the Occurrence in England of the Marsh 

 Warbler," in which the distinctions between this bird and the Heed 

 Warbler are pointed out. 



