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Willow-Warbler — Phylloscopus trochilus. Many records in winter. 

 We observed it ourselves and heard it in half-song in the 

 Mail Forest on March 6 (see p. 197). Mr. Jackson records 

 its remaining at Nairobi this year up to May 10. 



Sedge- Warbler — Acrocciihalvspliragmitis. Observed in Ukamba 

 in January. This year (1008) remained at Nairobi as late 

 as May 23 (F. J. J.). 



Marsh-Warbler — A. imlustris. Also recorded in January from 

 Ukamba. 



Whitethroat — Sylvia curmca. We thought we observed this on 

 Athi in January, but, as Mr. Jackson was doubtful, had 

 excluded it. He, however, writes (June 1908) : " I think 

 I have since got two or three from Kitui, west of Donyo 

 Sabuk." 



Another of our little British songsters, the Garden- 

 Warbler (;S', liortcnsis), though not yet actually recorded 

 from Equatoria,^ goes, in fact, far further south. For my 

 friend Mr. Harold Fry writes to me from the Transvaal : 

 " There are always two or three, sometimes more, in my 

 garden at Bertrams — an unobtrusive little bird, not given 

 much to warbling when he visits us here ; but with a fine 

 taste in fruits — cherries, apricots, peaches, grapes, nothing 

 comes amiss. But he is not above taking insects too ; 

 and, I have fancied,- reveals his Northern origin by con- 

 tinuincf to hawk after these even in a drizzle of rain that 

 drives most of our native birds to shelter." 



Mr. Jackson sends me the following most interesting note : 

 "Nairobi, May 25, 1908. — Several of our British migrants were 

 remarkably late in leaving these parts. The Spotted Flycatcher 

 remained until the middle of April ; the Willow- Wai'bler as late 

 as May 10; and the Sedge- Warbler I saw on May 23. The 

 Tree-Pipit was in great numbers in my garden up to May 4, 

 but all disappeared during that night, which was very wet and 

 stormy." 



Truly the above are remarkable dates, and Mr. Jackson asks : 

 " Did they know you were having Arctic weather in April at 

 home ? " 



As a matter of fact, these tiny travellers were not only 



1 Mr. Jackson writes : "I have sevei'al from the Ravine." 



