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Two instances only of the occurrence in England of this 

 prettily-marked Warbler were formerly recorded. The 

 first bird was shot on the boundary hedge of Newcastle 

 Town Moor in May 1826, and was presented by Mr. 

 Thomas Embleton to the Museum of the Literary and 

 Philosophical Society of Newcastle. This circumstance 

 was, I believe, first noticed by G. T. Fox, Esq. of Durham, 

 in his Synopsis of the Newcastle Museum, page 298, and 

 afterwards in the third volume of the Zoological Journal, 

 page 497. By the influence and kindness of that gentle- 

 man, this specimen, with some other birds of great rarity 

 and interest, were exhibited a few years ago in London, at 

 one of the evening meetings of the Zoological Club of the 

 Linnean Society. The occurrence of the second specimen 

 is recorded in the second volume of the Naturalist, page 

 275, and is said to have happened in Dorsetshire. 



Soon after the publication of that part of the work which 

 contained this species, I received a letter from Plumptre 

 Methuen, Esq., informing me that a specimen killed near 

 Birmingham was in his possession ; and in October 1841, 

 J. H. Gurney, Esq. of Norwich, sent me word that he had 

 just obtained a specimen for his own collection which had 

 but a very few days before been picked up dead near 

 Yarmouth. In September 1844 two birds, one old, the 

 other a young bird of the year, and both then un skinned, 

 were sent for my inspection by Mr. Gardner, of Oxford 

 Street. These birds were shot in the Isle of Sheppy. 



This species visits the European Continent from the 

 south in the breeding season. It is observed in Italy on 

 its passage northward in April, and again on its return in 

 September, a straggler being occasionally seen in the win- 

 ter. It visits during the summer Provence, Spain, France, 

 Holland, Belgium, Germany, and Prussia, going as far 



