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were watched for over an hour on Samson on April 13th, 1903. 

 As it is not recorded by Pechell, Eodd, or Jenkinson, it is 

 evidently not an autumn migrant. Before leaving the Warblers 

 it should be mentioned that David Smith had a conspicuous 

 Warbler under observation for a fortnight during the latter part 

 of September and the beginning of October, 1883, in the reed-bed 

 below the Abbey Eoad, which he identified as the Eufous Warbler. 

 He was too ill at the time to handle a gun, and the bird was not 

 seen by any other observer. Smith also shot what was evidently 

 a Great Keed-Warbler in the reeds on the Long Pool, Tresco, 

 about the end of September, 1884. He had it in his hand, where 

 it lay quietly for a moment spreading out its tail like a fan ; but 

 before he could kill it, it suddenly slipped over and went away 

 like a mouse. His description of the bird left no reasonable 

 doubt of its identity. The Dipper, as might have been expected, 

 has not occurred at Scilly. The Hedge- Sparrow is common in 

 every suitable locality all the year round. Its numbers do not 

 seem to be increased during the autumn or winter by immi- 

 gration. 



In some manuscript notes drawn up in 1863, Eodd says that 

 the Bearded Tit has occurred once on St. Mary's Moors. In 

 October, 1876, David Smith shot three Long-tailed Tits out of a 

 family of seven, and on Sept. 28th, 1903, he saw a family of five. 

 In the autumn of 1905 it was fairly common at Tresco. The 

 Great Tit has been occasionally observed in the autumn, and 

 twice in January, generally singly, but twice in small parties. 

 Single specimens sometimes linger in the autumn for two or 

 three weeks in the Abbey Garden. By a slip it is marked in 

 E. H. Eodd's ' Birds of Cornwall ' as breeding in Scilly. So far 

 it has not been observed in the islands in the spring at all. The 

 Blue Tit is seen occasionally, for the most part singly or in pairs, 

 during the autumn and winter, probably blown off the mainland 

 by storms, as may, indeed, be the case with all the Tits recorded 

 from Scilly. The Coal-Tit was obtained by Pechell in the autumn 

 of 1851, but has not been recorded since. The Marsh-Tit was 

 obtained about the same time, and was twice seen about 1863 by 

 Eodd. Augustus Smith, the late lord-proprietor of the islands, 

 told Eodd that at one time the Marsh- Tit was the commonest of 

 all the Tits at Scilly. The Wren is an abundant resident, much 



