WOOD WARBLER 



been recorded from Fair Isle and Sule Skerry on migration. 

 In Ireland it is rare and local, nesting only in Galway, 

 Queen's Co. and Wicklow. 



In Spain it seems to be a rare breeding species, only 

 recorded as nesting in the extreme south, though, as usual, 

 the information from that part of Europe is meagre. From 

 France, Belgium, Germany, the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, 

 and Switzerland, there is ample evidence of its general 

 distribution, but in Italy it is not a very common breeding 

 species, more numerous, however, in the central and northern 

 parts, and rare in Sardinia and Corsica. Heligoland is visited 

 on migration, though the bird does not appear to pass or rather 

 to rest upon this island so frequently as one might expect. 

 It occurs in Denmark and the lower part of Sweden, but not 

 apparently in Norway. Greece is passed on migration, but 

 its status in Turkey and Bulgaria has not been satisfactorily 

 determined. Throughout Poland, the Baltic Provinces, and 

 Central Russia generally as far as the Eiver Volga it is 

 generally distributed, but to the south it seems to be a bird 

 of passage only, though the data from the provinces round 

 the Black Sea and from the Caucasus are not very satis- 

 factory. Eeturning to the north we find it not uncommon 

 in Finland as far as Kuopio, which is perhaps its northern- 

 most limit, a summer visitor to the province of Vologda, 

 rare, however, in the vicinity of Archangel, and occurring, 

 though rarely, on the south-western slopes of the Ural 

 Mountains. There are records of its breeding near the 

 town of Orenburg. It is apparently present in N. Algeria 

 in the breeding season, but has not yet been proved to breed 

 there. 



On migration it is found in Asia Minor, Cyprus, 

 Palestine, Arabia, and Egypt, and also in Madeira on 

 the west side. The bird winters in Africa, its migrations 

 extending to the Gold Coast, the Congo, and Abyssinia. 



