22 LESSER WHITETHROAT 
SYLVIA CINEREA, Bechstein. 
WHITETHROAT. 
A fairly common summer visitor to the lower parts of 
the island, the Whitethroat is probably increasing in 
numbers. I have notes of it from localities all over the 
country, and in some of these it is plentiful. We observed 
a good many on the Calf in places where there were 
bushes, It is twice reported from Langness in April and 
May. 
Dr. Crellin mentions this bird apparently as the ‘ White- 
beard, but I have not heard the name used. 
The Whitethroat is widely spread in summer over all the 
British Isles, and is one of the most abundant and well 
distributed of warblers in Ireland. It has lately been dis- 
covered breeding in Lewis and one or two other of the 
Outer Hebrides; in Orkney and Shetland it is a straggler 
only. 
[SYLVIA CURRUCA (Linn.). LESSER 
WHITETHROAT. 
At a meeting of the Isle of Man Natural History Society, 
held 28th June 1893, Mr. Kermode stated that Mr. 
Kennard had reported to him having seen this species at 
Laxey and Peel (Y. LZ. M, ii. 84), and in his latest list 
(Y. L. M,, iii. 518) states, ‘is, I think, a regular visitor.’ 
This species is a summer migrant to England, becoming 
scarce in the west. (It does not seem to occur in at least 
the west of Carnarvonshire, but Mr. Coward heard two in 
song near Beaumaris.—Oldham, in Jit.) It is very local in 
