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BARE VISITANTS. 



tailed Warbler {Sylvia erythaca)" six specimens of 

 which are stated to have been taken at Plymouth, 

 and to have occurred there "for the first time in 

 Britain " (Bellamy, Nat. Hist. South Devon, p. 205). 

 It has been suggested to me, however, by Mr. Gurney 

 that these are more likely to have been the Black 

 Redstart {JRuticilla tithys), which occurs not imfre- 

 quently about Plymouth. 



OEPHEAN WAEBLEE. Sylvia orflma, Temminck. 



Hah. Central and Southern Europe; India and South- 

 western Asia ; North Africa. 



Two seen, one shot. Weather by, Yorkshire, 6th July, 1848 : 

 Sir W. Milner, Zoologist, 1849, p. 3588, and 1851, 

 pp. 3107-3111 ; Yarrell, Hist. Brit. Birds, v. p. 343. 



A young bird caught near HoUoway, Middlesex, June 1866, 

 and kept aHve for six months : Harting, The Field, 22nd 

 April, 1871. 



A nest and four eggs believed to belong to this species were 

 taken in Notton Wood, near Wakefield, in June 1864 : 

 Harting, I. c. 



YELLOW-BILLED CHITP CTTAEF. Phyllopmuste hy- 

 polais (Linnaeus). 

 Hab. Central and Southern Europe ; North Africa. 



One, Eythorne, near Dover, 15th June, 1848 : Dr. Plomley, 

 Zoologist, 1848, pp. 3228, 2346; Yarrell, Hist. Brit. Birds, 

 vol. i. p. 357. 



One,Dunsinea,co.Dublin: BlakeKnox,Zoologist, 1870,p.2018. 



Ois. YarreU has pointed out that this species is the 

 true hypolais of continental authors, and that the 



