70 sYLviic^. 



described, S. s. inornata in north-west Africa, and S. s. albi- 

 striata in south-east Europe and Asia Minor, these forms 

 wintering in the oases of the Sahara. 



Genus MELIZOPHILUS Forster, Synop. Cat. 

 Brit. Birds, 1817, p. 14. 



Type : M. dartfordiensis (Lath.) . 



Melizophilvs = song-loTing; /leXi'Jw = I warble, and (piXiio = I loTe. 



Melizophilus undatus. (Extra-limital.) 



Melizophilus undatus dartfordiensis. 



Dabtfokd Warblek. 



Sylvia dartfordiensis Latham, Gen. Syn. Suppl. i. 1787, 



p. 287: Dartford, England. 

 Sylvia provincialis (^Gmel.) ; SeeboJim, Cat. Birds B. 31. v. 1881, 



p. 31. 

 Melizophilus undatus (JBoddaerf) ; B. O. U. List, 1st ed. 1883, 



p. 14. 

 Sylvia undata Saunders, Manual, 2nd ed. 1899, p. 55. 

 Dartfordieiisis=oi Dartford in Kent, whence the bird was first recorded. 



Distribution in the British Islands. — Resident. Very local, 

 nests in Cornwall, Dorsetshire, Wiltshire, Hampshire, Sussex, 

 Surrey, Berkshire, Shropshire, Essex, and Suffolk. A rare 

 wanderer to other English counties. Occurred at the Tuskar 

 Eock, CO. Wexford, Ireland, in Oct. 1912. 



General Distribution. — The British race of the Dartford 

 Warbler is said to be resident in the Channel Islands and 

 north-west France. It is represented by the typical form in 

 south-west Europe, and another race has been described from 

 Corsica and north-west Africa. 



Genus AGROBATES Swainson, Nat. Hist. & Class. Birds, 

 ii. 1836, p. 241. 

 Type : A. galadodes (Temm.). 



Agrobates = one that goes over ( i. e. lives in) the fields or country ; from 

 aypos = a field, and jiatviD = I go. 



