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that on 29th May 1901 he listened to its song in Rhenass 
Glen, which has one of the most extensive wooded stretches 
in Man, and was planted perhaps sixty years ago. _ 
In many later visits to this glen Mr. Graves and I 
have failed to meet with the bird, but on 20th May 1905 
the former again heard a Wood Warbler at Ballamoar, 
Patrick, and on the same day I found to my surprise a 
number in full song in Ballacowle (commonly called ‘ Elfin ’) 
Glen, just outside Ramsey. At this beautiful place the 
steep sides of the little ravine, covered with a growth of 
hyacinth, tall male ferns, and wild raspberry bushes, are 
wooded with a mixed plantation of oaks and Scotch firs of 
considerable age and size, to which these warblers seem 
entirely confined. From the next (Crossags) glen, of a 
very similar character, but in which, though it has a 
number of oaks, Scotch firs are wanting, they are appar- 
ently absent. 
The Wood Warbler is said to breed in all the counties 
of England and Wales, and in many Scottish districts; is 
rare and local in Ireland, but breeds annually in Wicklow 
in just such ravines as the above-mentioned Rhenass. In 
the north-west of England it is local (it extends sparingly 
to west Carnarvonshire and Anglesea), nor is it common in 
Galloway. It is said to be spreading in the Highlands, but 
has not reached the Scottish islands. 
ACROCEPHALUS PHRAGMITIS (Bechstein). 
SEDGE WARBLER. 
MockineG Brrp. 
The Sedge Warbler was long overlooked as a Manx bird. 
It is not noticed in Mr. Kermode’s earlier published list. 
