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RADDE’S BUSH-WARBLER. 
LuscinfoLa SCHWARZI (Radde). 
For the discovery in England of this wanderer from Eastern 
Siberia ornithologists are indebted to the persistent researches of 
Mr. G. H. Caton Haigh. On the rst of October 1898, according 
to his custom at the time of migration, Mr. Haigh was diligently 
“working” the hedgerows which border the long sea-banks on the 
Lincolnshire side of the Humber, and, when near North Cotes 
(where he obtained the first British specimen of the Greenish 
Willow-Warbler), he was attracted by a strange and particularly 
powerful note. Thereupon the hedgerow was thoroughly beaten 
out, and the owner of the loud voice proved to be the Warbler in 
question—a bird about the size of a Wood-Wren, Easterly winds 
had been prevalent for some time. The illustration is taken from 
this specimen, kindly lent for the purpose. 
Radde discovered this Warbler in a kitchen-garden at Kulus- 
sutajevsk, near the Tarei-nor, Transbaikalia, on the 22nd of 
September 1856, and named it Sylvia (Phyllopneuste) schwarzt, 
after his friend the astronomer to the expedition (Reis. Siid. 
Ost-Sibir Bd. ii. pp. 260-263, tav. x. figs. 1-3). He afterwards 
found it in theChingan Mountains; Dybowsky met with it in 
Daiiria and the Ussuri country; Schrenck in the Amur Valley, and 
Dr. Nikolski in the south-western forests of the Island of Saghalien. 
From the dates at which specimens were obtained the bird evidently 
breeds in the above districts, but nothing is known of its nidifica- 
tion. The most detailed account of this Warbler is by Godlewski, 
who writes to the following effect :—On its migrations this species 
