GRASSHOPPER- WARBLER 



It visits parts of Switzerland, breeding regularly in the 

 low regions of the basin of the Eiver Aar and the Eiver Thur, 

 in the districts near Geneva, and in the valleys of Hash and 

 Ursern. On migration it is found as high as the Alpine 

 regions. 



Italy is little frequented, and the bird appears to confine 

 itself principally to the north-western districts, where it is 

 found in Lombardy, in the Brembana Valley, Piedmont, 

 Liguria, the neighbourhood of Nizza, and Modena. Little is 

 known of it in Central and Southern Italy, but it has been 

 found near Florence in September. From Corsica, Sardinia, 

 Sicily, Greece, and the Balkan provinces there are no records. 



In the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy it is not common, 

 principally inhabiting the Hansag swamp, and localities in 

 Pozsony, Feher, Also-Feher and Hunyad. As we get further 

 east, towards Galicia, it again becomes common, and leaving 

 Austria, we come to what is apparently its largest breeding 

 ground — the Russian Empire. 



Commencing with Poland, we find it common, especially 

 in Lublin, then proceeding north, not rare in the Baltic 

 provinces, the provinces of Pskov and St. Petersburg ; still 

 further north we trace it to the south-east of Lake Onega and 

 Ustiug Weliki in the province of Yologda It is more 

 numerous and generally distributed in the central provinces 

 of Jaroslav, where it breeds on the islands of the Volga and 

 near Bostov, Tver, Moscow, Smolensk, and Tula, also in the 

 district lying between the Bivers Volga and Oka, but from 

 the middle Volga valley there are no records. In the more 

 southern parts it is found in the provinces of Kiev, Volhynia, 

 Tchernigov, also 'along the banks of the Bivers Bug and 

 Dnieper. In the Ural district it is commonly distributed 

 round Bogoslovsk, the tributaries of the Biver Sosva, and in 

 the province of Perm ; it is also found in the Orenburg 

 district at the base of the south-west Ural Mountains, in the 

 plains of the Bivers Sakmara and Ilek, and in the middle 

 valley of the Biver Ural. In the Caucasus it is common in 



