LESSER WHITETHROAT 
GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION. 
Throughout the Southern, Hastern and Midland Counties 
it is generally distributed and in parts of the home counties 
common, especially in Surrey, but westward it becomes scarce, 
and appears to visit Cornwall and the Scilly Islands on the 
autumn migration only. In the eastern parts of Wales 
it is by no means uncommon, but rare in the west, being 
confined in Carnarvonshire to the Conway Valley. In the 
lowlands of Brecknockshire and Montgomery it is sparingly 
distributed. ‘Tio Cheshire, Lancashire and Yorkshire it is a 
common summer visitant, but north of this it becomes scarce. 
Crossing the border we find it rare, though occurring in some 
of the southern and western counties. In the northern 
counties it is very rare, solitary instances only of its occur- 
rence being recorded, except on migration, when it is a 
frequent visitor to Fair Island and an occasional one to some 
of the Western Isles. 
From Ireland there are only two records, both during the 
autumn migration, one from Inistrahull Lighthouse and the 
other from Tearaght Light. 
To the Channel Islands it is a regular, but by no means 
common summer visitor. 
Throughout the greater part of Spain it appears to occur 
on passage only, and has not yet been found breeding even 
in districts north of the Cantabrian Mountains. Whether it 
has occurred in Portugal is doubtful. 
In France it is generally distributed, and the same may be 
said of Holland, where it is common, and Germany, except in 
parts of Bavaria and Brandenburg, where it seems to be some- 
what scarce. North of this we find it common in the eastern 
parts of Denmark, but not so numerous in Jutland, fairly 
abundant in the lower lying districts of Norway, and common 
in the central and southern provinces of Sweden, occurring 
up to 64° N. lat. 
In Italy we find it in the northern parts only, but in 
Switzerland it appears to be generally distributed, though not 
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