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common in Kazan and Simbirsk, and becomes more numerous towards the south of Russia. In 

 the Ekaterinburg Ural Mr. Sabanaeff found it common along the rivers ; but he does not believe 

 that it ranges further north than 57^° N. lat. It appears to be found throughout North Ger- 

 many ; but it is more numerous in the western than in the eastern portion ; and Kjserbolling says 

 that it is one of the commonest species and is found throughout Denmark in suitable localities. 

 It arrives early in May, and leaves again late in August. In Belgium and Holland it is numerous 

 during the breeding-season, arriving in the latter country, Professor Schlegel says, about the end 

 of April and leaving late in September. Throughout France it is also very generally distributed 

 in suitable localities. M. A. Lacroix says that it arrives in the Haute-Garonne about the 15th 

 April, breeds throughout the French Pyrenees, and leaves early in September. It is, as elsewhere 

 in Europe, a summer resident in Portugal and Spain, appearing near Gibraltar, Colonel Irby 

 states, about the end of March, and breeding numerously early in May. He adds that he never 

 met with it in the winter ; but Mr. Howard Saunders states that he obtained it in Spain in 

 "winter and spring," and that it breeds abundantly near Malaga and elsewhere in suitable 

 localities. In Italy and Sicily it is common, and breeds in places where there is marsh and an 

 abundance of aquatic vegetation ; but it appears to be scarce in Sardinia, though Mr. A. B. 

 Brooke says there are several specimens in the Cagliari Museum. Nor is it, Mr. C. A. Wright 

 states, common in Malta, where it is usually seen in September and October. In some parts of 

 Southern Germany it is very numerous, but not everywhere ; for the late Mr. E. Seidensacher 

 informed me that in Styria he only met with it occasionally during passage ; but Dr. A. Fritsch 

 writes (J. f. O. 1871, p. 195) that in Bohemia it is certainly the most numerous of all the aquatic 

 Warblers, and literally swarms in some marshy districts. It is common in the countries skirting 

 the Danube, and also in Southern Russia, where, Mr. Goebel says, it breeds numerously in the 

 Uman district. Messrs. Elwes and Buckley record it from Turkey ; and it is found in Greece, 

 where, Dr. Kriiper says, it arrives rather earlier than the Thrush-like Warbler ; but he is unable 

 to say whether it breeds there or not. Colonel Drummond-Hay states that it is common and 

 resident on Corfu, and Erhard that it is a resident on the Cyclades. Lord Lilford found it 

 common in winter in Epirus and Acarnania ; and Dr. Kriiper says that it is tolerably common 

 near Smyrna. In Palestine, according to Canon Tristram, it is common from the first week in 

 March, and it is a migrant in North-east Africa. Von Heuglin says that it visits Egypt, Nubia, 

 and Arabia, on passage, in spring and autumn, and is at times tolerably common. Loche says 

 that it breeds in Algeria ; but it is not recorded from Morocco by either M. Favier or Mr. C. F. 

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To the eastward this Warbler is found as far as Baluchistan. Dr. Sever tzoff states that it 

 breeds in Turkestan; and Mr. Blanford, who obtained it in Persia and Baluchistan, writes as 

 follows : — " The specimens from the Persian highlands, Asupas and Kohrud, agree perfectly with 

 European skins in the proportions of the quills ; but those from Shiraz and Baluchistan have the 

 second (or first long) primary shorter in proportion to the third and fourth than in the typical 

 A. streperus. In the latter the second quill is nearly or quite equal to the fourth ; in the skins 

 from Baluchistan and Shiraz it is decidedly shorter; and in one specimen from Bampiir the second 

 quill is shorter than the fifth. As, however, the difference does not appear constant, and there is 

 variation in the extent to which the wing is rouuded, I see no reason for separating the skins 



