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THE ICTERINE WARBLER. 
Hypo.dls IcTER{NA (Vieillot). 
Although common on the Continent, even within sight of 
our shores, this member of a well-marked genus—not remotely 
allied to the group of Reed-Warblers—is only a rare visitor to 
England and Ireland. The first example was killed on June 15th 
1848, at Eythorne, near Dover; a second (now in the Dublin 
Museum), on June 8th 1856, at Dunsinea on the banks of the 
Tolka, co. Dublin; a third was shot by Mr. F. D. Power on 
September 11th 1884, near Blakeney, Norfolk ; a fourth near New- 
castle-on-Tyne, June 2oth 1889; a fifth at Easington, Holderness, 
Yorkshire, on May 28th 1891 ; a sixth at Wells, Norfolk, September 
4th, 1893; anda seventh at Cley, Norfolk, September 7th 1896. 
Lastly, Mr. A. F. Ticehurst exhibited at the British Ornithologists’ 
Club, on May 19th 1897, a female which had been shot at Burwash, 
Sussex, on April 30th. All these examples have been examined and 
identified by competent authorities; the significance of which will 
be apparent hereafter. 
In Norway the Icterine Warbler breeds up to a little beyond the 
Arctic circle, although in Sweden, Finland and Russia, its northern 
range is less extensive. Eastward, the Ural and the valley of the 
Tobol form its known limits, while further south it has been obtained 
at Lenkoran, on the western side of the Caspian. In Asia Minor, 
