SONG BIRDS OF GREAT BRITAIN. 



tail and crest at intervals, accompanied by a double 

 or triple cry, which seems to express the words 

 cha, cha, cha. They frequently take their food 

 while suspended to the wires with their heads 

 downwards, and not unusually turn over back- 

 wards on the perch." 



Buffon, who appears to have been the first, 

 if not the only person on the Continent who knew 

 anything of the Dartford Warbler, as a naturalist, 

 seems to have known very little more than that 

 such a bird existed, and that it had been found in 

 Provence (as his name of Le Pitchou de Provence 

 evinces), but he knew nothing of its habits. 



