22 BIRDS OF DUMFRIESSHIRE 
than in others, as in early June, 1903 * .and it ^as^b^^^^^ 
recorded in some cases to have wintered in Great Britain. 
?L litest date of its occurrence locally so far as I know 
is November 29th, 1881,t when Mr. R. Service captured an 
nrlnlt male near Dumfries. , 
I ray be well to note here that the name Blackcap- 
commonly appUed to the Coal-Titmouse, and with the 
prefix Greater, to the Great Titmouse. 
THE GARDEN-WARBLER. 
Sylvia hortensis, Bechstein. 
A .„mmer.»i.!tant, in .ome year, far more numerous than in other.. 
This bird is the Greater Pettyohaps of Sir William Jardine 
who writes of it in 1832, as regards the parish of Applegarth 
Id libbaldbie, " abundant, and though seldom observed, 
is often betrayed by its melody."J Th,^ - J^^'/^^^', 
after an unusually large immigration of ^I^f ^*P^^^^^ 
Garden-Warblers, the local newspapers were full of reports 
of the advent of the Nightingale ! (See p. IS.) 
' m' R Service tells me that Howard Saunders must have 
misunderstood him when he makes him say that the 
Zcfes is more abundant in the Solway district than the 
Blackcap '1 and it is unaccomitable why this usually 
getS?d stributed bird should appear to be absent from 
f rtain localities in Dumfriesshire ; Po-bly .t may be o^ten 
overlooked. So far as I can learn, the ^en-Warbler 
Tof more common occurrence in the Uttoral parishes and 
parishradjoining ; elsewhere it is distributed more or less 
. Trans. Edin. Field Nat. Soc., 1904-1905, Vol. V.. Part 3, p. 181. 
t Man. Brit. Birds, 1899, p. 47- 
I New Stat. Acct. Scot., Vol. IV., p. 179. 
§ Man. Brit. Birds, 1899, p. 49. 
