THE GARDEN WARBLER, 6 1 



mens were obtained from Scilly. Dr. Bullmore, 

 in his " Cornish Fauna " (p. 1 7), confirms Mr. 

 Rodd's statement that it is a summer visitant to 

 East Cornwall. 



It will be remarkable if this bird is not found 

 to be common in some parts of Wales, since it 

 not only occurs in Ireland, but is not nearly so 

 scarce there as the observations of Mr. Thomp- 

 son would lead us to suppose. In his " Natural 

 History of Ireland" (Birds, vol, i. p. 185), this 

 naturalist refers to the Garden Warbler as ex- 

 tremely rare in Ireland, and notices its occur- 

 rence only in the counties of Cork and Tippe- 

 rary. If I mistake not, Mr. Blake-Knox has 

 met with it in the county of Dublin; I have 

 myself observed it in Wicklow ; and Sir Victor 

 Brooke has lately assured me that in the 

 county of Fermanagh, about Lough Erne, it is 

 common in summer, and nests regularly in the 

 neighbourhood of Castle Caldwell, to the north- 

 west of that county. In the same neighbour- 

 hood, he added, the Blackcap is unknown. 

 When we remember the number of naturalists 



