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British Birds. 
The Chestnut-bellied Weaver-Finch is an inhabitant of India, China, the Malayan 
Peninsula, and Indo-Malayan Islands. It is chestnut in colour, with a black head 
and neck, upper breast, abdomen and under tail-coverts : the upper tail-coverts and 
tail-feathers have a gloss of golden straw-colour. Length four-and-a-half inches. 
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The Western Tree Warbler. — Hypolais polyglotta. 
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RADDE’S 
BUSH-WARBLER. 
(Herbivocula schwarzi.) 
At the meeting of the British Ornithologists’ Club held 
on the 19th of October, 1898, Mr. G. H. Caton Haigh ex- 
hibited a specimen of this Siberian species, which he had 
himself shot at North Cotes, in Lincolnshire, on the 1st 
of October. He noticed the powerful note of the bird and had the hedge 
thoroughly beaten out to find the owner of so loud a voice, with the result that 
Hevbivocula schwarzi was added to the Avifauna of Europe, for it has never been 
seen in any part of the continent. 
Its breeding-home is in Siberia, and it winters in Southern China and the 
Burmese Provinces. In form Herbi- 
vocula is intermediate between the 
Reed-Warblers and the Willow-War- 
blers. Like the latter it has a nearly 
even tail, not graduated as in the Acro- 
cephali, and the bill is black, short and 
stout. The colour of Radde’s Bush- 
Warbler is very simple, being olive- 
brown above and tawny-buff below : 
it has a very distinct buff eyebrow and 
the under wing-coverts and axillaries 
are also buff. Length five-and-a-half 
inches, wing 2‘45- 
Radde’s Bush-Warbler. 
