WARBLEES. 17 



Isle of TFi^'^*.— (Hadfleld, 'Zoologist/ 1865, pp. 9582 and 9609, 

 and 1866, pp. 338 and 340 ; ' The Field,' Jan. 26, 1861, and April 

 4, 1863). 



Sussex. — (Knox, « Orn. Eambles,' p. 198; Merrifield, 'Sketch 

 Nat. Hist. Brighton,' p. 167; Ellman, 'Zoologist,' 1850, p. 2953, 

 and 1851, pp. 3113 and 3276 ; Harting, ' Zoologist,' 1863, pp. 8484 

 and 8523 ; ' The Field,' Jan. 26, 1861). 



Kent. — Bexley Heath, near Dartford ; the locality where it was first 

 discovered (Pennajit, Jide Latham, ' British Zoology'). Blackheath 

 and Hayes Common (Collingwood, ' Fauna of Blackheath and 

 Vicinity,' p. 26). Woolwich ("Whitely, ' Zoologist,' 1863, p. 8819). 



Surrey. — "Wandsworth Common (Montagu, I. c). Eeigate (Howard 

 Saunders). Croydon (Crowley). 



Middlesex. — (Harting, ' Birds of Middlesex,' pp. 54, 55 ; ' The 

 Field,' Nov. 6, 1858;. 



Oxfordshire.— Onae (A. G. More, ' Ibis,' 1865, p. 27). 



GamhridgesJiire. — Gamlingay Heath, near Potton (Bond). Great 

 Abington (Smoothy, ' The Field,' Dec. 17, 1870). 



Worcestershire. — Eare (TarreU, ' History of British Birds '). 



Leicestershire. — Eare (Harley, " List Birds Leicestershire," in 

 MacgiUivray's ' History of British Birds,' vol. iii.). 



Derbyshire. — Eare (A. G. More, ' Ibis,' I. c). 



In addition to the above-named localities, the bird 

 has also been met with in Jersey (Harvie Brown, 

 ' Zoologist,' 1869, p. 1560). 



WOOD WEEN. Phyllopneuste sibilatrix (Bechstein *). 



A summer migrant to England and Scotland. In 

 Ireland it is extremely rare (Zoologist, 1866, p. 300J. 

 Sir Victor Brooke informs me that he shot a Wood 



* It appears that sibilatrix of Bechstein (Gemein. Naturg. Deutsch. 

 iv. p. 660), bestowed in 1795, has priority over sylvicola of Latham 

 (Ind. Orn. Suppl. p. 53), proposed in 1801, and subsequently adopted 

 by Pennant, Montagu, Yarrell, and others. 



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