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the Oxholm wood. In Western Germany, Holland, Belgium, and France it is a tolerably common 

 summer visitant in suitable localities, arriving later than the other allied species, and leaving 

 rather earlier. Professor Barboza du Bocage records it from Portugal ; and it is found in Spain ; 

 but Colonel Irby says (Orn. Str. Gibr. p. 88) that it is the scarcest of the Phylloscopi on the 

 Spanish side of the Straits of Gibraltar. He saw the first on the 22nd of April, but was unable 

 to notice the date of its departure south. He adds that he has killed it in his garden at 

 Gibraltar, and that some remain during the nesting-season in the cork-wood. Herr A. von 

 Homey er met with it in the Balearic Isles, where, he says, it occurred sparingly during migra- 

 tion. In Savoy and Italy it is a regular spring visitant ; and in Sicily it is stated to prefer the 

 plains to the hill country. Mr. A. B. Brooke states (Ibis, 1873, p. 243) that it is "common in 

 Sardinia, arriving in spring, when it frequents the orchards and olive-groves." It is said to be 

 tolerably common in Malta during passage ; and Mr. C. Bygrave Wharton informs me that he 

 observed several in Corsica early in April. Lord Lilford speaks of it (Ibis, 1860, p. 231) as 

 being " decidedly far from common in Corfu and Epirus ;" and Dr. Kriiper says that it is only 

 met with on passage in Greece, and he observed it on the 4th April, 1869, in Thessalonica, and 

 on the 26th April, 1874, in Attica. It is a summer visitant to most parts of Southern Germany. 

 The late Mr. Seidensacher informed me that he occasionally met with it on passage near Cilli, in 

 Styria, but he never found its nest there. Dr. Anton Fritsch speaks of it (J. f. O. 1871, p. 196) 

 as being rarer in Bohemia than Phylloscopus trochilus ; but it breeds near Prague, in the Zavis 

 valley. Von Homeyer met with it in the beech-forests at Sternberg, near Braunau. It is found 

 in Austria, but I have very meagre data respecting its being abundant or otherwise in that 

 country. Messrs. Danford and Harvie-Brown speak of it as being common in Transylvania 

 among the woods of the plains and low country ; and, they add, it was also observed on the 

 Eetjezat by HH. Csato and Buda-Adam. Messrs. Elwes and Buckley observed it in Turkey; 

 in Southern Russia it is stated by Von Nordmann to be common ; and it nests, he states, in 

 the Crimea, in the countries on the borders of the Black Sea, and in Abasia. Dr. Kriiper says 

 that he only observed it in Asia Minor on passage in April, and again in August ; and Canon 

 Tristram, who met with it in Palestine, writes (Ibis, 1867, p. 83) as follows : — " It was curious that 

 we never met with a specimen of P. sibilatrkv in winter ; but on the 26th April they suddenly 

 appeared, on which day Mr. Bartlett shot more than a dozen ; and until the second week in May 

 they were very common, after which we saw them no more ; nor did we ever find a nest. The 

 species seems merely to be of passage on its way to the north. In Algiers I have noticed them in 

 the beginning of April." It visits Africa during the winter season. Captain Shelley says (B. of 

 Egypt, p. 101) that though it is to be met with throughout Egypt and Nubia, and he believes it 

 occasionally remains throughout the year, for he obtained a specimen near Assouan as late as the 

 end of April, it is not plentiful there at any season ; but Herr Th. von Heuglin says (Orn. N.O.- 

 Afr. p. 298) that it is not an uncommon winter visitant in North-east Africa, where it is met 

 with along the Nile. Lefebvre obtained it in September at Schirie, in Northern Abyssinia ; and 

 Mr. Cavendish Taylor observed it near Damietta in April. In North-west Africa it is also met 

 with in the winter, and possibly remains there to breed; for Mr. O. Salvin states (Ibis, 1859, 

 p. 306) that he shot a single specimen in May near where the Chemora empties itself into Lake 

 Djendeli. Loche speaks of it as not being common in Algeria, where it is only met with in 



