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hypolais of most British writers is the rufa of the 

 continent, the well-known Chiff Chaff. 



As an illustration of the way in which continental 

 species sometimes find their way to England, and 

 possibly to a place in the list of British birds, it may 

 be remarked that in May 1868 Mr. J. G. Keulemans 

 brought over three specimens of this bird from Hol- 

 land, two of which he liberated at Harwich, the third 

 having died on the passage. 



YELLOW-BEOWED WAEBLEE, Pennant & Latham. 

 Eeguloides superciliosus (Gmelin). 



Hab. Northern Asia, India, Nepal *; China, Japan, and 

 Formosa f. 



One, Hartley Point, Northumberland: Hancock, Ann. & Mag. 



Nat. Hist. vol.ii. p. 310; Blyth, Zoologist, 1863, p. 8329; 



Yarrell, Hist. Brit. Birds, vol. i. p. 380. 

 One, Charlton Kings, near Cheltenham, llth Oct. 1867: 



Gould, Ibis, 1869, p. 128. 



Obs. This is the Dalmatian Eegulus of some authors ; 

 a singularly inappropriate name, since the bird is as 

 rare in Dalmatia as it is in Great Britain. 



EUBY-CEOWNED WEEN. Begulus calendula (Lin- 

 naeus). 

 Hab. United States, from the Atlantic to the Pacific. 



* Ibis, 1862, pp. 54-57. 



t P. Z. 8. 1863, p. 297. The bird has occurred accidentally in 

 Sweden (Sundeval), in Heligoland and Berlin (Journ. fiir Orn.), 

 and near Leyden (Crommelin, Nederl. Tijdschr. 1865, p. 244). 



