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web, and with the inner web broadly margined with white on the terminal third, the remaining 

 feathers, except the two central ones, more narrowly bordered with white on the inner web ; sides of 

 the head and neck greyish, throat white, these parts being conspicuously barred with very dark ashy 

 grey ; rest of the underparts white, conspicuously barred, especially on the flanks and under tail- 

 coverts, with crescentic bands of dark ashy grey ; flanks washed with grey ; bill horn-brown, yellowish 

 at the base of the lower mandible; legs yellowish, or pale brownish flesh-coloured; iris pale yellow. 

 Total length 6| to 7 inches, culmen 065, wing 35, tail 2 - 95, tarsus 1. 



Female (Shiraz, summer, 1870). Resembles the male, but is much browner and less barred on the under- 

 parts. 



Young (Shiraz, Persia). Upper parts sandy grey, underparts white, on the flanks and to a slight extent on 

 the breast washed with sandy buff ; no bars either on the upper or underparts ; wings browner than in 

 the adult ; and the secondaries and wing-coverts are edged and tipped with dull whity-brown ; tail less 

 marked with white and much browner in tinge of colour. A young bird from Genoa closely resembles 

 this specimen, but is, if any thing, a trifle paler in colour. 



The Barred Warbler inhabits Central, Southern, and Eastern Europe, in the summer ranging up 

 into portions of Northern Europe, and in the winter migrating southwards into Africa. It has 

 not been met with in Great Britain or in Norway ; but in Sweden it is found in the southern 

 districts, where it is not rare ; and Nilsson says that it breeds not uncommonly in the woods of 

 Eastern and Central Skane, Wram, Osby, Ljungby, &c, and in Blekinge, on Oland, and Gottland. 

 It has been once observed in Finland, near Haminanlaks, by Mr. F. von Wright, on the 2nd 

 June, 1836 ; and it occurs in Russia, but does not range far north. Mr. I. von Fischer says 

 (J. f. O. 1872, p. 388) that it is common near St. Petersburg ; Mr. Sabanaeff informs me that it 

 breeds in the Government of Jaroslaf, but is rare ; Eversmann says that it is not uncommon on 

 the Central Volga and further southward ; Bogdanoff met with it now and then in the Govern- 

 ments of Kazan and Simbirsk ; and Kessler speaks of it as being not uncommon in the district 

 of Kieff. Mr. Sabanaeff did not himself meet with it in the Ural, but says that Mr. Martin 

 observed it near the Keshtemsky Zavod, and he thinks that it may range as far north as 57° 

 N. hit. I have no information as to its occurrence in Poland, where it is doubtless found; but 

 in Northern, and especially in North-eastern, Germany it is tolerably common. Borggreve says 

 that Mecklenburg and Anhalt appear to be the western limits of its range, except that Brahts 

 found it breeding near Neuwied. Mr. Schiitt says (J. f. O. 1861, p. 235) that it is rare in 

 Baden, but he saw a specimen in Heidelberg which had been killed in the Odenwald ; and it has, 

 he says, been met with near Carlsruhe. Mr. Piissler speaks of it as being extremely common in 

 Anhalt in the meadows skirting the Elbe. It has, I may here name, been met with in Denmark. 

 Kj?erb611ing found it breeding in Eastern Jutland ; and Bonnez records it as breeding on Mols. 

 It also breeds at Flensborg, at Ordrup, in Iceland, and on Lolland. Mr. Fischer met with it 

 breeding on the west coast of Vendsyssel, and he found its nest at Birkelse Have in June 1862 

 and June 1865, and once, in June 1863, at Ulveskoven. At the first place the nest was placed 

 in a young fir, and at the latter in a young birch. It has not been met with in Holland or 

 Belgium ; nor has it been met with in Northern France ; but it visits the southern portions 

 df that country during the two seasons of migration; Baron von Midler (J. f. O. 1856, p. 224) 



