72 A CATALOGrE OF TmO BIRDS 



formed a scrubby fringe on either side. In such, situations it 

 builds its loosely-constructed nest, two or three of which I have 

 taken in the neighbourhood of !N^ewcastle : one of them occurred 

 in Scotswood Dene, 1832. 



80. Whitethroat. C. cin^erea, Brisson. 



Sylvia cinerea, Bewick, Hist. Brit. Birds, Ed. 1847, I., 150. 

 Curruca „ Yarrell, Hist. Brit. Birds, Ed. 2, I., 316. 



A s|)ring-and-autumn migrant. This is the commonest of our 

 warblers, and is ycry generally distributed ; it frequently nests 

 in low herbage by road sides, coming and going with the other 

 warblers. 



70. CALAMOHERPE, Boie. 



81. Great Reed Warbler. C. turdoides, (Mei/rr.) 

 Calamoherpc turdoides, Degiand ct Gcrbe, Orn. Europ., I., 515. 

 Acroce})h(tlHs ,, Gould, Birds of Gt. Britain, Part XYII. 



A male specimen of this rare casual visitant was shot by Thos. 

 Kobson, near Swalwell, four miles west of I^cwcastlc, May 28th, 

 1847. It was skulking in tlie low herbage by the side of a mill 

 dam. A notice of this capture is recorded in Annals and Mag. 

 Xat. Hist., August, 1847, Vol. XX., p. 135. 



Tlie specimen is in the possession of Mr. Thomas Thompson, 

 of Winlaton ; and was, I believe, the first recorded occurrence of 

 this hirgo warbler in tlie British Islands. 



71. LOrUSTELLA, Kavp. 



82. GRASsnorPER Warbler. L. x.iiviA, {^Brismn). 



S>//viff lonixtrlla^ BcAvick, Hist. Brit. Bii'ds, Ed. 1847, T.. 138. 

 Salicdrla ,. ^'arrell, Hist. Brit. Birds, Ed. 2, I.. 285. 



'JMiDUgb seldom seen, on account of its skulking habits, it is 

 not by tany means rare; it is local, however, preferiing low 

 bi'iishy scrub in secluded situations. I liave found it breeding in 

 ^•ari()us ])laccs in tlic neighbourliood of ^S'cwcastle ; but it is no 



