SYLVIINA. 53 
SUBALPINE WARBLER. 
SYLVIA SUBALP{NA, Bonelli. 
At a meeting of the British Ornithologists’ Club on December 
tgth, 1894, Dr. R. Bowdler Sharpe exhibited a specimen of this 
Warbler, forwarded to him by Mr. J. Steele Elliott of Dudley, who 
had shot it on the island of St. Kilda, in the Outer Hebrides, in 
June of the same year. In ‘The Zoologist,’ 1895, p. 282, 
Mr. Elliott says :—‘“ TI first noticed it haunting the Minister’s garden 
on June 13th, busily employing itself searching for food along a row 
of young peas ; and it frequently flew to a parsnip in seed that grew 
in one corner of the garden, and which seemed to attract a greater 
number of insects. This little bird allowed people to approach 
quite close to it; and remained throughout Sunday until the 
following day, when I shot it in the presence of Mr. Fiddies and 
Mr. McKenzie, the factor. It was at once placed in spirits and 
forwarded direct to Mr. J. Cullingford, of Durham, for preservation. 
Its sex could not be ascertained with certainty. Its presence was 
probably caused by the great gale that blew across the island on 
June rath, from the south-west.” 
The Subalpine Warbler, as its name implies, is a southern species ; 
its nearest breeding-places being in the south-eastern districts of 
France and in Savoy, where it arrives regularly about the middle of 
April ; while it occasionally reaches Geneva and even Neuchatel. 
In Spain I observed it in Murcia, and obtained birds, with nests 
and eggs, from Malaga, as well as from the vicinity of Madrid; 
Col. Irby saw a small party at Cadiz on March 27th, and the late 
