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distributed over Lakeland as a summer visitant, scarce in 

 the sheltered valleys of the south of this area, such as Rusland 

 (where Mr. Archibald meets with it only in small numbers), and 

 seldom noticed in Cumberland east of the Eden valley. Mr. Tom 

 Duckworth found two nests of Chiffchaffs, full of young birds, 

 in an afternoon's stroll near Gilsland, during the present summer 

 [1891]. 



WILLOW WREN. 



Phylloscopus trochilus (L. ). 



The Grune Point, near Silloth, is a long shingled beach, 

 covered with scrubby gorse, which affords fair shelter to small 

 birds resting on their travels. Here, accordingly, a good many 

 Willow Wrens halt on the spring passage, shy and voiceless, 

 until the fatigue of their last long flight has passed, and they 

 find themselves able to renew their northward journey with fresh 

 vigour. In autumn their movements are less exclusively noc- 

 turnal ; the young birds, conspicuous by reason of their brighter 

 tints, then appear pretty freely in our hedgerows. Like the 

 Goldcrest and the Whitethroat, this small Phylloscopus has 

 occurred on migration at St. Bees Lighthouse. It is of course 

 numerously diffused throughout our woods as a breeding bird. 



WOOD WREN. 



Phylloscopus sibilatrix (Bechst. ). 



The Wood Wren is just sufficiently local with us for some 

 interest to attach to its presence ; but granted a sheltered situa- 

 tion and a good supply of old timber, you may find a pair or 

 two of Wood Wrens in most parts of Lakeland. Their numbers, 

 like those of the Grasshopper Warbler, fluctuate from season to 

 season. Yet even such an isolated plantation, as that which 

 clothes the banks of the Aigle Gill beck, will, on examination, be 

 found to hold a pair or two of these charming little warblers. 

 I have listened to its shivering song in many pleasant places — 

 in the park at Holker, in the Windermere Woods, on the banks 

 of the Lowther river near Penrith ; but there is no more certain 

 1 find ' for the Wood Wren than King Moor, where the citizens 

 of Carlisle used to hold their race meetings. 



