36 HANDBOOK OF BRITISH INLAND BIRDS 
year 1773 ; but like many such names which 
link a species to one particular locality from the 
accident of its first discovery, it is not a good one, 
for the bird is no commoner in that part of Kent 
than in many other districts, being most plentiful, 
indeed, on suitable commons in Sussex, Hampshire, 
and Surrey. The most conspicuous instance of 
such inappropriate naming is the " Camberwell 
Beauty " butterfly, Camberwell having long been 
a very poor place for butterflies of any kind, since 
it was swallowed up in London. The Dartford 
Warbler is well worth looking for with care on all 
suitable wastes and commons in the parts of 
England likely to be haunted by it, for it is an 
odd and seldom-seen little creature. It is a 
very dark grey above, and a dark reddish-brown 
underneath, and appears quite black and unlike any 
other little bird as it flits about the furze-sprays, 
or creeps through the thicker bushes. It has also 
unusually short, round wings, and a dispropor- 
tionately long tail, which it spreads out in some 
of its attitudes much like a miniature Cuckoo, and 
flirts in a graceful manner high above its back ; it 
utters a few sharp notes, which scarcely amount to 
a song. The nest is built towards the end of April 
in the thick of a furze-bush, of various dry, pliable 
stems, and very much resembles the Whitethroat's. 
There is a second brood about June. Four or five 
