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bird sate; and ultimately brought out seven young ones ; 
but I cannot help supposing it a singular instance of 
attachment and confidence, after being twice so rudely 
disturbed.” 
The young are hatched by the end of May, or the be- 
ginning of June. Mr. Sweet says this species soon be- 
come very tame in confinement. 
The Willow Warbler is plentiful m the counties around 
London, and in a westerly direction visits Hampshire, 
Wiltshire, and Dorsetshire. Colonel Montagu states that 
at the date of his observations, this bird did not go so far 
west as Devonshire and Cornwall, and there is no reason 
to suppose that he was mistaken; but from whatever 
cause it may arise, this bird is now become a constant 
summer visitor, not only to Devonshire and Cornwall, but 
to Wales: it was seen also in the summer of 1834 by a 
party of naturalists in the district of Connamara in the 
west of Ireland; and according to Mr. Thompson of 
Belfast, it is a regular summer visitor to the North of Ire- 
land. In a direction eastward and northward of London, 
this bird is plentiful in Essex, Suffolk, Norfolk, Derby- 
shire, Durham, and Northumberland. It is probably 
found in various parts of Scotland, since Mr. Selby ob- 
served it in Sutherlandshire in the summer of 13834, even 
to the extremity of the island, and says, ‘‘ it was noticed 
wherever copse or brushwood abounded. About Tongue 
it was very plentiful, and the same at Laing, the margins 
of Loch Naver, and the wooded banks of Loch Assynt, 
but it was the only species of the genus Sylvia seen there.” 
I have been unable to trace this bird to the Scottish 
islands ; yet it visits Denmark, is known to arrive in Swe- 
den before the end of April, and was seen by Mr. Hewit- 
son in Norway. On the Continent of Hurope, in summer, 
