28 SEDGE WARBLER 
There are, however, two specimens, probably forty years old, 
at Orrisdale. About 1886 Mr. F. S. Graves observed it 
about the ‘dubs’ at Ballalough, German. Since then I have 
met with it along the borders of the Dhoo and Glass, on the 
Onchan Sulby, on the (northern) Sulby near Ramsey, at 
Lough Cranstal, and in Ballaugh Curragh, where it is 
abundant, and, as I am informed by Mr. J. B. Keig, has 
acquired the name of ‘ Mocking Bird.’ In the Peel district 
Mr. Graves further heard and saw it in the Congary swamp 
on 21st May 1902, and on the same date observed another 
in full song on the banks of the little stream near Kirk 
Patrick Church. Still it is likely not universal in suitable 
localities. In the neighbourhood of Castletown, where some 
of the streams and ditches, slow and surrounded by thick 
herbage, seem well adapted to its habits, it seems to occur 
but very scarcely, and has perhaps only recently made its 
appearance. 
On 22nd April 1885 ten. are recorded at Langness at 
night, and again on 10th April 1886, numbers; and on 
10th May 1886 it is reported together with Willow Warblers 
and Whitethroats (all identified) On 12th May 1904 
Mr. A. Burnett sent me a specimen killed at the same 
station the night before. About the same time Mr, F. 
Nicholson picked up another at Hillberry, Onchan, which 
had likely been killed by striking on migration the wires 
of the Douglas-Ramsey telephone. 
Mr. Kermode thinks that to this species should be 
referred the occasional reports of ‘ nightingale’s’ songs in 
the Isle of Man. 
The Sedge Warbler, a well-distributed species, is abun- 
dant in the opposite districts of England, Scotland, and 
Ireland. It nests in Orkney, but does not reach Shet- 
land, and has once only been recorded from the Outer 
Hebrides. 
