SOI Capt, H. Lynes o7i the Geographical Distribution 



the moult, and that is a male bird from Kandahar, collected 

 by Sir O. St. John on the 7th of April, 1879. 



This bird has lost nearly all the primaries of both wings, 

 but as the secondaries, the tail, and the plumage generally 

 appear very little worn, and the bird is not otherwise 

 moulting, I cannot help thinking that the lost feathers 

 have been accidentally or purposely removed, and their 

 non-existence is not, therefore, due to moult. 



XIV. — Remarks on the Geographical Distribution of the Chiff- 

 chaff and Willow-Warbler. By Capt. Hubeiit Lynes, 

 ll.N., M.B.O.U. 



(Plate XII.) 



In the cork-woods of the Gibraltar neighbourhood during 

 the last few days of April and first few of June 1913, we 

 spent a good many hours over the '•' Phylluscopus" Warblers. 



Irby (Ornith. Str. Gib. 2nd ed. 1895, pp. 63-64) records 

 four species of Phylloscoj.us as breeding there : P. bonellii, 

 P. collybita, P. trochilus, and P. sibihdrix, the two latter 

 being comparatively scarce. Many writers follow suit, 

 apparently quoting Irby, for I cannot find other independent 

 observations of the same matter on record. 



We found plenty of Willow- and Wood- Warblers during 

 the April visit, when they were evidently on passage and 

 without song, but none in June, and no evidence of either 

 species breeding in the neighbourhood on either occasion. 



Of the others, Bonellis were plentiful. Their poor song 

 in April suggested only recent arrival in the neighbourhood, 

 and we could find no nests, although in June we saw one 

 brood abroad with their parents among the cork-trees. 



The only other breeding Phylloscopus (so far as we could 

 find), was by its song, I think anyone would have agreed, a 

 Willow-Warbler; singing males of this species shared the 

 cork-wood glades in about equal proportion with Bonellis. 

 For a Willow-Warbler, true, the. song was unmelodious and 



