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seen (but the latter very rarely, and only for a moment) around Belfast — in the counties of 

 Down and Antrim — by my ornithological friends and myself. But no specimen killed either 

 here or anywhere in Ireland — guns being laid up at the time of the bird's sojourn with us — 

 came under my examination until the 25th of July, 1839, when my friend Richard K. Sinclair, 

 Esq., brought me an adult one which he had shot on the preceding evening at the falls; its 

 stomach was filled with coleopterous insects." 



It does not appear ever to have been met with in Sweden, Norway, or Finland ; but it 

 will doubtless be found to occur in the eastern portion of the last-named country, as Mr. Meves 

 saw a pair at Andoma, near Lake Onega, in June. In Central Russia, Mr. Sabanaeff informs 

 me, it is commoner than either the Reed- or Sedge-Warbler, more especially in the provinces 

 of Moscow and Jaroslaf, and in the Ural it ranges as far north as Pavda. As below stated, Mr. 

 Sabanaeff obtained Locustella hendersoni in the Southern Ural, where possibly both species occur. 

 He met with it in the Tagilska Dacha ; and in the black-earth plains it is, he says, numerous 

 amongst the birches which skirt the shores of the rivers and lakes. It occurs in Poland ; but I 

 am without any notes from my friend Mr. Taczanowski respecting its distribution in that country. 

 In North Germany Borggreve speaks of it as being a regular summer visitant, numerous on the 

 Elbe and its tributaries, but rare in other localities. Mr. Hintz found it breeding near Coslin, in 

 Pomerania, and says that he has obtained its eggs there every season ; and it appears to breed in 

 several other localities in North-eastern Germany. Mr. A. von Homeyer gives (J. f. O. 1869, 

 pp. 61-66) some careful details respecting its range in Germany during the summer season, from 

 which it appears that he met with it in Pomerania (Neu-Vorpommern), Frankfort-on-the-Main, 

 Rastatt, in Baden, Gross-Glogau, in Lower Silesia, in Posen, at Miinsterberg, in Silesia, in the 

 county of Glatz, at Breslau, and at Gorlitz, in Ober-Lausitz. It occurs northward into Denmark, 

 where, according to Kjserbolling, it is a very rare summer visitant, arriving in May and leaving 

 in August. According to Mr. Mecklenburg it occurs in Schleswig, and breeds at Flensborg ; and 

 Mr. E. Hage says that it breeds at Kiel. As previously stated, it is said to be common on the 

 Elbe ; and Dr. Rey says that he frequently saw it from the end of April to the commencement 

 of June at Halle, but never found its nest there. It breeds, however, in Dessau. Mr. R. Blasius 

 speaks of it as being rare in Brunswick, where it frequents the lowlands ; and it is found, though 

 rarely, in the countries bordering the Rhine. It occurs, Mr. Sachse informed me, annually near 

 Altenkirchen, in the Coblentz district ; but its nest is seldom found there. When I was there 

 Mr. Sachse showed me several eggs which he had himself taken there, one nest being on a hill 

 close to a wood near that town, at a considerable distance from water. This nest was on the 

 ground amongst the bramble bushes ; a second was in the heath amongst thinly standing wood- 

 growth, and a third in the rushes in a swampy district, the eggs in the last being strongly 

 incubated. When discovered the female sat so close that she was caught on her eggs, and let 

 loose. On leaving the nest and returning again after about twenty minutes' interval she was 

 again found on the nest, and a second time caught. Mr. Sachse wanted a specimen for his 

 collection, but could not decide to kill her, and let her go again. 



In Belgium, according to Baron De Selys-Longchamps, it is a rare and accidental visitant ; 

 and De la Fontaine says that he never obtained but one specimen in Luxemburg. In Holland 

 it is found during the summer, arriving late in April and leaving in September ; and, according 



