BEITISH WARBLERS 



stripe is not so conspicuous. The underparts are whitish 

 more or less suffused with vinous on the throat and light 

 buff on the upper breast, flanks, and roots of the under tail- 

 coverts. The abdomen is white and the under side of the 

 wings and tail as in the male. The colour of the iris, bill, 

 and feet is similar in both sexes. 



GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION. 



There are only two records of the occurrence of this 

 southern species in Great Britain . one from St. Kilda and 

 the other from Fair Isle. It has occurred in Switzerland, 

 but in Europe its breeding range includes Spain, Portugal, 

 the south-eastern parts of France, Italy, Sicily, Sardinia, 

 Corsica, Dalmatia, Croatia, Bosnia, Montenegro, Herze- 

 govina, Bulgaria, Turkey, Greece, the Ionian Islands, and 

 the Archipelago. It also inhabits Asia Minor and Cyprus, 

 and has been observed in Palestine. As a breeding species 

 it appears also to be common in Morocco, Algeria, Tunis, 

 and Tripoli, and passes through Egypt on migration. 

 Probably the North- West African and the West Mediter- 

 ranean birds are resident, but very little appears to be known 

 of its winter quarters beyond the fact of its migrating in 

 numbers through Algeria and Tunisia, and having occurred 

 in Somaliland, Arabia, and German East Africa. So that 

 apparently the birds from the Balkan Peninsula, Asia Minor, 

 &c, are regular migrants. 



Slight subspecific differences are noted between birds from 

 (1) South-west Europe and West Mediterranean ; (2) North- 

 west Africa; and (3) South-east Europe, Asia Minor, and 

 East Mediterranean. 



