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abdomen, and under tail- coverts greyish-white, the latter with 
dusky centres; under wing-coverts and axiilaries otange-buff; 
quills dusky below, ashy-whitish along the inner web; bill 
dark brown, the lower mandible pale at the base; feet and 
claws leaden-grey ; iris hazel. Total length, 6 inches ; cuhnen, . 
°'5 > wing, 3'o; tail, 2-15 ; tarsus, 075. 
Adult Female, — Similar to the male in plumage. Total length, 
6 inches ; wing, 3 - o. 
In Autumn Plumage the upper parts incline to russet-brown 
rather than to olive-brown, and the buff of the under surface 
of the body is deeper in tint and more reddish, the white of 
the breast being very pure. 
Young Birds resemble the autumn plumage of the adults. 
Note. — The Garden-Warbler is very easily recognised by its sober 
coloration, the buff colour of the throat and chest distinguishing it from those 
of other species, which have the head coloured like the back It has the 
same shaped wing as the Whitethroat, the first, or bastard, primary being 
very small, and falling short of the primary-coverts by 01 or 02 inch? 
The second primary-quill is nearly equal to the third. In shape and bulk 
the Garden Warbler is about the same as the Blackcap, but the black or 
rufous caps always serve to distinguish t lie latter. 
Range in Great Britain. — A summer visitor to most parts of 
England, more locally distributed than the Blackcap, though 
in the Solway district of Scotland Mr. R. Service says that 
it is more abundant than the last-named species. Its 
breeding range does not extend beyond Pembrokeshire and 
Breconshire, in Wales, nor is the bird known to breed in the 
west of Cornwall. In Scotland it seems to be less generally 
distributed, though recorded from Banffshire and from the- 
Shetlands during the autumn migration. In Ireland it is a 
rare and local bird, and has been recorded as breeding only in 
the counties of Antrim, Fermanagh, and Tipperary, and pos- 
sibly in Cork. 
Range outside the British Islands. — Found everywhere through- 
out Europe, nesting as far north as 70° N. lat. in .Scandinavia, 
and to about 65° in Russia, but it does not extend east beyond 
85° E. long., according to Mr. Seebohm ; its most easterly 
record being apparently the vicinity of Omsk, in Siberia, in 
the neighbourhood of which town specimens are said to- 
