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PALLAS'S GRASSHOPPER - WARBLER (LOCUS- 

 TELL A CERTHIOLA) IN IRELAND. 



A NEW BRITISH BIRD. 

 BY 



R. M. BARRINGTON, m.b.o.u. 



An immature example of Pallas 's Grasshopper- Warbler 

 was picked up dead at the Rockabill Lighthouse (five 



Pallas's Grasshopper-Warbler, picked up dead at the Rockabill 

 Lighthouse (Co. Dublin), on September 28, 1908. 



miles off the coast of co. Dubhn) on September 28th, 1908, 

 b}^ the assistant light-keeper — Martin Kennedy. This is 

 the first recorded occurrence of this bird in the British 

 Isles, and so far as I can ascertain, it has only once before 

 been obtained in Europe, viz., by the late Heinrich 

 Gatke, in Heligoland, where a young bird was caught j 



