106 BARE VISITANTS. 



tailed Warbler (Sylvia erythaca)" six specimens of 

 which are stated to have been taken at Plymouth, 

 and to have occurred there "for the first time in 

 Britain " (Bellamy, Nat. Hist. South Devon, p. 205). 

 It has been suggested to me, however, by Mr. Gurney 

 that these are more likely to have been the Black 

 Redstart (Eutidlla tithys), which occurs not unfre- 

 quently about Plymouth. 



ORPHEAN WARBLER. Sylvia orphea, Temminck. 



Hab. Central and Southern Europe; India and South- 

 western Asia ; North Africa. 



Two seen, one shot, Weatherby, Yorkshire, 6th July, 1848 : 

 Sir W. Milner, Zoologist, 1849, p. 2588, and 1851, 

 pp. 3107-3111 ; Yarrell, Hist. Brit. Birds, v. p. 343. 



A young bird caught near Holloway, Middlesex, June 1866, 

 and kept alive for six months : Harting, The Field, 22nd 

 April, 1871. 



A nest and four eggs believed to belong to this species were 

 taken in Notton Wood, near Wakefield, in June 1864 : 

 Harting, /. c. 



YELLOW-BILLED CHIEF CHAFF. Phyllopneuste hy- 



polais (Linnaeus). 

 Hab. Central and Southern Europe ; North Africa. 



One, Eythorne, near Dover, 15th June, 1848 : Dr. Plomley, 

 Zoologist, 1848, pp. 2228, 2346 ; Yarrell, Hist. Brit. Birds, 

 vol. i. p. 357. 



One, Dunsinea,co.Dublin: Blake Knox, Zoologist, 1870,p.2018. 



Obs. Yarrell has pointed out that this species is the 

 true hypolais of continental authors, and that the 



