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a few feet. Mr. Rogers reports the grasshopper warbler a regular 

 summer visitor to Freshwater ; but the nest taken on the slopes of the 

 WhiteclifF, and formerly referred to this species, is now believed by 

 Mr. Bury to have belonged to the rock pipit. 



Reed Wren. Has been observed at Freshwater by Mr. Rogers ; in 

 Sandown Marshes it is far less numerous than the sedge warbler. 



Garden Warbler. I shot a single specimen in a garden at Bern- 

 bridge in August, 1848, its song at this late season having attracted 

 notice ; the bird has also been obtained about Newchurch and at 

 Freshwater, but it is one of the most uncommon of our summer 

 visitors. 



Lesser Whitethroat. Has been found by Mr. Rogers at Fresh- 

 water, but is rare in that locality. 



Wood Wren. Has been observed a few times in the more wooded 

 parts, having been heard by Mr. Bury in Youngwood Copse, and once 

 near Ryde by myself; but at Freshwater Mr. Rogers speaks of it as 

 being a regular summer visitor, partial to fir plantations. 



Dartford Warbler. Besides the localities already given in the 

 ' Zoologist,' this bird is found in the boggy ground near Godshill, 

 known as " the Wilderness," also at Freshwater, &c. Mr. Bury has 

 recently noticed that during winter the Dartford warbler is constantly 

 driven up before his dogs when beating a field of turnips : it is almost 

 needless to remark how well this agrees with what is said of its 

 resorting to the cabbage gardens in Provence. 



Firecrested Regnlus. May now fairly be reckoned a rare winter 

 visitant to the Isle of Wight, one specimen at least having been ob- 

 tained in December, 1857, among a number of Reguli that were 

 knocked down with sticks and stones near Alum Bay : out of those 

 brought to him Mr. Beazley, the bird-stufFer, at Ryde, selected the 

 brightest for preservation, and this proves to be a well-marked male 

 of the firecrest. What proportion may have belonged to the rarer 

 kind cannot now be conjectured, but the tameness of the flock 

 sufficiently indicated a recent arrival. 



White Wagtail. Was observed near Freshwater by Mr. Bond, 

 in May, 1859, and, during the satne month, near Sandown by 

 Mr. Rogers. 



Tree Pipit. Is not considered rare at Freshwater, and has been 

 ascertained to occur in one or two other localities, mostly to the north 

 of the chalk downs; but it is decidedly local. On its autumnal 

 migration the bird has been noticed in the Undercliff by Mr. H. S. 

 Leesou. 



