26 WOOD WARBLER 
This is one of the few summer visitors which are pretty 
plentiful in Man. Without being a conspicuous or well- 
known bird, this warbler frequents most, if not all, of our 
wooded districts, and the sweet but melancholy song, 
familiar to but few, sounds in many of our larch woods. 
abundantly in the month of May. It is plentiful in the 
willow hedges of the Curragh, there meriting its English 
name. At the time of migration the Willow Warbler may 
sometimes be seen among the heath and gorse of the coast 
brows, but does not habitually reside in such places. On 
the Calf of Man we observed a few in May 1901, but 
though there are some bushy localities on the islet which 
might shelter a few pairs, these birds were very shy and 
unsettled, and gave the impression of birds of passage 
entirely out of their proper surroundings. 
The Willow Warbler is on various occasions recorded at. 
Langness in the end of March (in 1886, one on 24th, an 
early date), in April and May. Mr. Graves heard the song 
at Ballamoar on 11th April (1903). 
The Willow Warbler is plentiful almost all over Britain. 
In Ireland, as in the Isle of Man, it is ‘one of the 
commonest summer visitants.’ In the parts of England 
and Scotland nearest. to us it abounds. It has colonised 
such woods as are to be found in Lewis and Harris, and has. 
reached Orkney and Shetland, though in the latter, at least, 
only as a migrant. 
PHYLLOSCOPUS SIBILATRIX (Bechstein). 
WOOD WARBLER. 
This species was unrecorded for the Isle of Man until 
My. F. S. Graves stated in the Zoologist for 1902 (p. 23) 
