ORPHEAN WARBLER. 



P A Sk E 'RES. 



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SYLVIIDjE. 



SYLVIA ORPHEA, Temminck.* 

 THE ORPHEAN WARBLER. 



Curruca orphea. 



THE occurrence of this species in Yorkshire was announced 

 in 1849 by the late Sir William Milner, and a specimen, 

 said to have been obtained in a small plantation near 

 Wetherby, July 6th, 1848, is preserved in the collection 

 he made. "My bird is evidently a female," he wrote 

 (Zool. p. 2588), "and was observed in company with its 

 mate for a considerable time before it was shot." From the 

 state of its plumage, he thought that it had been engaged 

 in incubation. In June, 1866, a young bird was caught near 

 Holloway in Middlesex, and was kept alive, by Sergeant- 

 Major Hanley, for nearly six months, as the Editor was 

 kindly informed by Mr. Blyth, who carefully examined the 

 example. Mr. Harting, in his useful ' Handbook of British 



* Man. d'Orn. p. 107 (1815). 



