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bird sate ; and ultimately brought out seven young ones ; 

 but I cannot help supposing it a singular instance of 

 attachment and confidence, after being twice so rudely 

 disturbed." 



The young are hatched by the end of May, or the be- 

 ginning of June. Mr. Sweet says this species soon be- 

 come very tame in confinement. 



The Willow Warbler is plentiful in the counties around 

 London, and in a westerly direction visits Hampshire, 

 Wiltshire, and Dorsetshire. Colonel Montagu states that 

 at the date of his observations, this bird did not go so far 

 west as Devonshire and Cornwall, and there is no reason 

 to suppose that he was mistaken ; but from whatever 

 cause it may arise, this bird is now become a constant 

 summer visitor, not only to Devonshire and Cornwall, but 

 to Wales : it was seen also in the summer of 1834 by a 

 party of naturalists in the district of Connamara in the 

 west of Ireland ; and according to Mr. Thompson of 

 Belfast, it is a regular summer visitor to the North of Ire- 

 land. In a direction eastward and northward of London, 

 this bird is plentiful in Essex, Suffolk, Norfolk, Derby- 

 shire, Durham, and Northumberland. It is probably 

 found in various parts of Scotland, since Mr. Selby ob- 

 served it in Sutherlandshire in the summer of 1834, even 

 to the extremity of the island, and says, " it was noticed 

 wherever copse or brushwood abounded. About Tongue 

 it was very plentiful, and the same at Laing, the margins 

 of Loch Naver, and the wooded banks of Loch Assynt, 

 but it was the only species of the genus Sylvia seen there." 



I have been unable to trace this bird to the Scottish 

 islands ; yet it visits Denmark, is known to arrive in Swe- 

 den before the end of April, and was seen by Mr. Hewit- 

 son in Norway. On the Continent of Europe, in summer, 



