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DARTFORD WARBLER, 



FUBZE WHEN, 



Sylvia provinciate, ScHLEGEl,. 



" dartfordiensis, LATHAM. 



JUbtacilla provincialis, GMELIN. 



Melizophilus provincialis, SELBY. 



Curruca provincialis, FLEMING. 



Sylvia. SylvaA wood. Provincialis Provincial. 



IN Spain, Italy, and the south of France this species is 

 met with. 



The earliest specimen noticed in Britain was obtained on 

 Bexley Heath, near Dartford in Kent, in April, 1773, and it 

 thence derived its Anglican name. The circumstance was 

 first made known by Dr. Latham, and Pennant recorded it in 

 the 'British Zoology' published in 1776. Since then the 

 bird has been repeatedly met with in various parts of the 

 south of England, occurring on most of the furze-clad commons 

 of Kent, Surrey, and Middlesex; at Blackheath, Barnes 

 Common, Burwood Common, St. George's Hill, Wimbledon 

 Common, Wandsworth Common, Grodalming, and Shooter's 

 Hill; in Devonshire, near Teignmouth, Kingsbridge, and to 

 the north of Exeter; Truro, Falmouth, and Penzance, in 

 Cornwall ; Alton and Andover, in Hampshire ; in Worcestershire ; 

 Melton Mowbray, in Leicestershire; the Downs near Lewes, 

 Sussex, in September, 1850; and near Chichester, as A. Fuller, 

 Esq., of Broyle House, informs me one in 1852, and five 

 previously. A few have been known to breed on Cannock 

 Chace, Rugeley, Staffordshire, by R. W. Hawkins, Esq.; and 

 one has occurred on the Denes near Yarmouth, Norfolk. 



The Dartford Warbler is exclusively confined to heaths 

 and commons, the rough cover of such affording it the se- 

 curity that it desires. 



