BRITISH WARBLERS 



Commencing with Morocco and Algeria, probably its most 

 southern breeding range, we find it sparingly distributed. 

 In Spain we find it occurring in Granada, Malaga, Murcia, 

 Valencia, and common in the marshes of Santander, also 

 wintering in the more southern provinces. The records from 

 Portugal are very scarce, and the bird apparently only visits 

 the country occasionally : it has been seen near Coimbra. 



Crossing the Pyrenees, we find it more generally dis- 

 tributed and in parts of France common, for instance, in the 

 provinces of Finistere, Cotes-du-Nord and Morbihan, also 

 along the banks of the Eiver Var and in Savoie. 



Belgium is only rarely visited ; it has been found in the 

 province of Namur. The same applies to Holland to some 

 extent, but here, perhaps, it is rather more frequent in its 

 visits and breeds near Haarlem and Cromvoirt : I found no 

 trace of it in Texel. 



Continuing northwards, we find it occurring on migration 

 in Heligoland. The records, however, become very scanty 

 as we still continue north. In Holstein it is common, but 

 rare in Schleswig. It has been obtained on the Island of 

 Alsen. In Denmark it has apparently only been found during 

 the autumn migration, specimens having been killed at a 

 lighthouse on the coast of North-west Jutland, at a lightship 

 in the North Kattegat and on the Island of Anholt. In 

 Sweden it has not hitherto been found, but reappears as 

 a breeding species, though rarely, in the southern parts of 

 Norway, confining itself principally to the Jaderen, Christiania 

 and Drobak districts. 



In Germany it is generally distributed. Working from 

 west to east, we find it rare in Hanover, occurring on the 

 River Marke, and not rare in Baden. The districts near the 

 Elbe and its tributaries are apparently the most frequented, 

 especially in Anhalt, Brandenburg, Mecklenburg, near Rostock 

 and Parchim, and Altenburg. We find it again in Hessen, 

 and as might be expected, it is partial to the Danube and its 

 tributaries near Augsburg, Lauingen and Munich, and is not 

 uncommon in Silesia. 



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