408 BRITISH BIRDS. 



Garden- Warbler (Vol. I., p. 56). — Scotland. — One was 

 shot at Barra on October 24th, 1898 (W. E. Clarke, Ann. 

 S.N.H., 1899, p. 110). It is, in my experience, more plentiful 

 and more generally distributed than the Blackcap in the Forth 

 District, and also in Perthshire (W. Evans, iii litt.). 



Wood- Wren (Vol. I., p. 83). — Scotland. — Saunders says : 

 " In Scotland it is fairly distributed, and has apparently 

 spread northward of late years, being recorded by Messrs. 

 Harvie-Brown and Buckley as breeding in the north-east of 

 Sutherlandshire, and as having been identified at Dunbeath, 

 in Caithness, and in West Ross." According to Booth [Cata- 

 logue, p. 107), it was abundant in the north of Scotland in 

 the sixties. " I have," he says, " noticed this bird as being 

 particularly numerous in the ^\ildest glens of Perthshire, Ross- 

 shire, and Caithness." Was also noted in Moidart prior to 

 1865 as seemingly a regular summer visitor, but " less common 

 with us than the Willow- Warbler " (Mrs. Blackburn, t.c). 

 " It is of general diffusion through the kingdom" (Selby, Brit. 

 Ornithology, Vol. I., 1st ed., 1825, p. 189) (W. Evans, in litt.) 



Greenish Willow- Warbler (Vol. I., p. 82). — The speci- 

 men taken at the Suleskerry Lighthouse in 1902 now proves to 

 be an example of Eversmann's Warbler (P/??/Z/o5C0292<5 borealis). 

 Mr. Eagle Clarke obtained a similar bird on Fair Isle in 1908, 

 and found that, although it only had a single wing-bar, it was 

 a specimen of P. borealis. The fact that this species sometimes 

 exhibited this character had escaped the attention of Mr. 

 Howard Saunders and himself when they identified the Sule- 

 skerry bird. It is possible that the only other British record 

 for P. viridanus may also prove an error, and that the species 

 may have to come off the British list (W. Eagle Clarke, Ann. 

 S.N.H., 1909, p. 114). 



Hypolais ? sp. (Vol. I., p. 83). — Mr. F. C. Selous writes : 

 " My friend Major Mangles when at school in Croydon took 

 a nest with four eggs in an osier-bed in 1884. Two of these 

 eggs w^ere broken and the other two I have in my collection. 

 They are undoubtedly eggs of either the Melodious or the 

 Icterine Warbler. Howard Saunders and Mr. E. Bidwell 

 both thought they belonged to the former species." 



Reed- Warbler (Vol. L, p. 84). — The first authentic example 

 for Ireland was killed by striking the Rockabill Lighthouse on 

 October 20th, 1908. Mr. A. H. Evans stated that he heard this 

 species singing in a reed-bed on the Shannon, near Portumna, 

 on July 23rd, 1904 (R. M. Barrington, Sciejit. Proc. R. Dublin 

 Soc, XII., p. 19). 



Great Reed- Warbler (Vol. I., p. 84). — One was shot in a 



