96 British Birds, with their Nests and Eggs. 



time ; this I find the best thing for collecting such birds as Gold-crests, as ^ it 

 damages them so little, and these little birds were so tame that I could easily 

 have got one or two of them." 



Since writing the above, Mr. Frohawk obtained skins of the Yellow-browed 

 Warbler for illustration on our plate of that species, and at once recognized them 

 as the species which he and his wife had seen; thinking, however, that it would 

 be as well to make assurance doubly sure, he showed her the drawing for the 

 plate as well as the skins without making any remark ; and, directly she saw them 

 she said— "Why those are the same as the little birds which we saw hopping 

 about in the hedge in Devonshire." It is therefore clear that Mr. Frohawk was 

 not mistaken in his original opinion, and that these four specimens may be 

 confidently added to the list of Yellow-browed Warblers met with in Great Britain. 



Family— TURD ID ^. Stibfamily—SYL VIIN^. 



The Chiffchaff 



Phylloscopiix ru/us, BechST. 



A PARTIALLY resident bird in mild winters in the warmer parts of Cornwall, 

 but by far the greater number migrates annually from our shores in October : 

 this species is, however, the first to return in the spring, its monotonous double 

 note being often heard by the middle of March. 



The northward range of the Chiffchaff in Europe extends almost to the Arctic 

 circle and eastward to the valley of the Volga, southward to the shores of the 

 Mediterranean ; it is a regular winter visitor to Northern and North-eastern Africa 

 as far as Abyssinia, as well as to Arabia, Persia, Asia Minor, Palestine and Greece : 

 it is resident in the Canary Islands. 



