BRITISH WARBLE ES 



colour at the base. The flanges and the mouth are orange, 

 the feet dusky flesh colour washed with lavender, the claws 

 brown, and the soles olive yellow. 



The colouring of the female is similar to that of the male. 

 In the autumn the colouring becomes more intense, the upper 

 parts being strongly washed with olive yellow, and the under 

 parts rusty buff. 



Nestling. — In colour the nestling is much like the adult 

 after the autumn moult. The upper parts, however, are less 

 olive, and the under parts more brownish. The iris is light 

 greyish brown, the bill lavender, and the flanges light yellow. 

 Feet are light flesh colour. 



GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION. 



It is not a little remarkable, considering how 7 numerous 

 this bird is in France, Belgium and Holland, that on a few 

 occasions only has it been known to visit our shores. Why 

 so narrow a strip of sea should form such an impassable 

 barrier we do not know. Northumberland, Shropshire, Norfolk, 

 Kent, Surrey, Sussex, Hampshire, and probably also the 

 Scilly Isles, all possess records of its occurrence, but no 

 instance of its breeding. 



In Spain and Portugal it is common except in the central 

 plateau, and also in France except in the extreme w T est. 

 Throughout Belgium, Holland, Germany, the Austro-Hungar_ 

 ian Empire, and Italy, it is generally distributed and common, 

 but scarce in Denmark, and scattered over the low ground 

 only in Switzerland. In parts of the Balkan Peninsula it is 

 common, but very scarce in Macedonia and Greece, and though 

 breeding in Sicily does not do so in Corsica and Sardinia. In 

 Poland it is numerous, and we find it in the western part of 

 the Baltic Provinces, in the provinces of Jaroslav, Smolensk, 

 Tula and Tambov, in the north-eastern part of the provinces 

 of Perm and Orenburg, in the delta of the Eiver Ural, and 

 throughout Southern Eussia generally to the Caucasus. In 



