British Birds. 
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P. liochilus. WILI-OW-WA RULER. 
Range. Europe and A.sia ; Africa in winter. [H.L.) 
IMarcli 10, 1097. A great many Willow-Warblers (or bir<1s very like 
them) in trees along the Cape road, Ballnust. Many of the trees simply 
alive with them. Next day all were gone. 
P. minor. CHIFFCHAFF. 
Range. Europe to Persia; North-west to North-east Africa in 
winter. (H.L.) 
Erem»inela lutescens. 
E. viridiflava. 
Range. Senegambia. {H.L.) 
E. pnsilla. ' 
Range. vSenegambia to Gold Coast. [H.L. 
Camai oplei a lincia. 
Range. Senegambia to I,oango. (H.L.) 
Piinia mystacea. 
Range, Tiopical .-Vfrica. {H.L.) 
(To be conlinued) . 
BRITISH BIRDS. 
IE b e mn r \? n e c f?. 
{lynx torqjiilla). 
By F. Howe. 
Ill my opinion tliis is niidoublecily one of the most interest- 
ing of our indigenous species, and well repays one for tlie trouble 
of looking after it ; not that it has any song to give, but its 
peculiar deportment and characteristics are quite diflferent to 
those of any other bird we get in this country. 
The colouration and markings too, are very peculiar, yet 
very delicate and beautiful : consisting of a curious mottling of 
browns, black and grey, chastely beautiful in their arrangement 
and distribution, but very difficult to descrilje in detail. Briefly 
the description is as follows: — Upper plumage reddish-grey; 
under parts light fawn ; a broad blackish-brown runs from the 
back of the head to the middle of the back; wing prettily mottled 
with dark-brown ; throat and upper breast variegated with dark 
transverse lines ; under parts ligliter with darker arrow-shaped 
markings; tail mottled and heavily barred with blackish-brown. 
The bill, tongue, and feet are similar to those po.ssessed by Wood- 
