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GRASSHOPPER WARBLER. 
In distribution it is not uncommon in various 
parts of England, so far north as Northumber- 
land ; and, according to Mr Thompson, it is 
occasionally met with in Ireland. In Scotland it 
is more rare, and perhaps does not reach north 
of the Firth of Forth. We have it stated as 
coming near Edinburgh,* and we possess a single 
specimen, shot near New Abbey, in Galloway, 
for which we were indebted to the kindness of 
Dr Buslinan, and the individual who procured it 
was aware of its occasional occurrence. In the 
middle and southern parts of Europe it is also 
not unfrequent, but we have no records of its 
farther range. 
This species more resembles the first in the distri- 
bution of the colours of the plumage, but the struc- 
ture of the hallux and hinder claw is not nearly 
so strong, which may be accounted for from the 
difference in its habits from those of either of the 
last. The colour of the upper parts of the 
plumage is deep oil green ; the edges of the 
quills paler, and having the centre of each 
feather, except those on the rump, umber brown ; 
the chin and centre of the belly are pure white ; 
the breast, flanks, and under tail coverts pale oil 
green ; the feathers immediately below the white 
of the chin spotted with a narrow triangular spot 
of umber brown ; the under tail coverts have 
the shaft yellowish brown. The sexes are similar 
in plumage. 
Rennie. 
