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arrives in Belgium and France as early as the end of April, and during the summer is numerous 

 and very generally distributed, especially in the northern and western provinces of France. 

 Common in Portugal, it is also found in Spain ; and Colonel Irby says that it usually arrives 

 at Gibraltar about the middle of April, and he saw the last on the 7th October. It nests in 

 the cork-wood of Gibraltar, laying about the 10th of May; and, in a note just received, he 

 informs me that it is very numerous in the province of Santander in May and June. Bailly says 

 that in Savoy it is rarely met with above an altitude of from 1400 to 1500 metres, but below 

 that it is numerous from the end of April to the early autumn ; and in Italy, according to 

 Salvadori, it is very numerous in August and September, but is comparatively rare on the spring 

 migration, and is not known to nest below Lombardy ; but Doderlein says that a few pairs breed 

 in the district of Modena. It occurs in Sicily on passage, being abundant in autumn ; and 

 though it does not appear to have been obtained in Sardinia, it probably visits that island. 

 Mr. C. A. Wright says that in April and again in the middle of August and in September 

 flocks of the present species visit Malta on passage, and numbers are netted for the table, as 

 many as a hundred dozen being sometimes brought in at a time. Lord Lilford found a nest of 

 the Garden-Warbler containing eggs near Klimara, in Epirus, in May 1857, but did not observe 

 it there on any other occasion ; and Dr. Kriiper says that it is only a migrant in Greece, neither 

 remaining to breed nor winter there. It breeds, however, in Southern Germany ; and the late 

 Mr. E. Seidensacher informed me that he now and again found its nest near Cilli, in Styria ; and 

 Dr. Anton Fritsch says that it is common throughout Bohemia. It appears also to be by no 

 means uncommon in the countries bordering the Danube ; and Dr. Radde states that it is 

 common in Southern Prussia, where it arrives late in April and leaves late in September. 

 Dr. Kriiper speaks of it as being merely a migrant in Asia Minor ; but it breeds in Palestine. 

 It does not appear to be common in North-east Africa ; for Von Heuglin speaks of it as being a 

 very rare spring visitant, and adds that he obtained an old female on the island of Roda, near 

 Cairo. In North-west Africa, however, it is tolerably common ; and Loche states that it is 

 abundant about Algiers, though he does not say at what season of the year. Favier says that it 

 is found near Tangier, on passage to Europe in April and May, returning in October, when it is 

 nearly as plentiful as the common Whitethroat. Messrs. Shelley and Buckley shot one at 

 Abouri, in West Africa, on the 27th of February ; Puis obtained it at Aguapim ; Andersson sent 

 home two examples from Damaraland ; and Wahlberg procured a pair in Caffraria between the 

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To the eastward it ranges scarcely beyond the Ural range ; and it appears doubtful if it is 

 met with as far east as Persia. De Filippi certainly records it as found by him in a garden at 

 Tabriz, in Persia; but neither Mr. Blanford nor Major St. John ever met with it in that country, 

 and the former gentleman points out that there is no specimen in De Filippi's collection at 

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The Garden-Warbler assimilates closely in habits to the Blackcap. It frequents wood- 

 lands where the undergrowth of weeds and brambles is dense, and gardens where there is good 

 shelter, and where it is undisturbed. Though restless and active in its movements, seldom 

 remaining long in one place, it is very secretive in its general habits, and is not a bird one often 

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