70 SYLVIID/E. 



described, S. s. inornata in north-west Africa, and S. s. albi- 

 striata in south-east Europe and Asia Minor, these forms 

 wintering in the oases of the Sahara. 



Genus MELIZOPHILUS Forster, Synop. Cat, 

 Brit. Birds, 1817, p. 14. 



Type : M. dartfordiensis (Lath.). 

 MellzophHits = song-loving ; /i<-X/w = I warble, and 0t\t'(u = I love. 



MelizOphilllS undatllS. (Extra-limital.) 



Melizophilus undatus dartfordiensis. 



DARTFORD WARBLER. 



Sylvia dartfordiensis Latham, Gen. Syn. Suppl. i. 1787, 



p. 287: Dartford', England. 

 Sylvia provincialis (Gmel.) ; SeeloJtm, Cat. Birds B. M. v. 1881, 



p. 31. 

 Melizophilus undatus (Soddaerf) ; B. 0. U. List, 1st eel. 1883, 



p. 14. 



Sylvia undata Sounders. Manual, 2nd ed. 1899, p. 55. 

 Dartfordiensi8=of Dartford in Kent, whence the bird was first recorded. 



Distribution in the British Islands. Resident. Very local, 

 nests in Cornwall, Dorsetshire, Wiltshire, Hampshire, Sussex, 

 Surrey, Berkshire, Shropshire, Essex, and Suffolk. A rare 

 wanderer to other English counties. Occurred at the Tuskar 

 Rock, co. Wexford, Ireland, in Oct. 1912. 



General Distribution. The British race of the Dartford 

 Warbler is said to be resident in the Channel Islands and 

 north-west France. It is represented by the typical form in 

 south-west Europe, and another race has been described from 

 Corsica and north-west Africa. 



Genus AGROBATES Sicainson, Nat. Hist. & Class. Birds, 



ii. 1836, p. 241. 

 Type : A. galactodes (Temm.). 



Agrobates = one that goes over ( i. e. lives in) the fields or country ; from 

 ay pot a field, and ftaivoi = I go. 



