THE FURZE-WARBLERS. 
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body vinous- chestnut, the abdomen pure white; the feathers 
of the throat and fore-neck tipped with hoary white, these tips 
forming a faint moustachial streak along the cheeks ; under 
tail-covcrts ashy grey, with hoary margins : under wing-coverts 
and axillaries d irk slaty-grey ; bill dark brown, with a pale base 
to the lower mandible; feet and claws pale brown ; iris orange 
yellow. Total length, 5 inches; culrnen, 0-5 ; wing, 2'o ; tail, 
2 ’4; tarsus, 075. 
Adult Female. — Similar to the male in colour, but paler below, 
inclining more to cinnamon-rufous than chestnut. Total length, 
5 inches ; wing, 2 - o. 
Yfinter Plumage. — Much darker than in summer, being more 
of a sooty brown, the hoary white tips to the feathers of the 
throat more distinct, these wearing off a good deal during 
the breeding season. 
Young. — Dusky chocolate-brown above, the edges of the 
win ( j- co verts and cjuills more rufous-brown ; undei suiface of 
body pale tawny buff, the sides and flanks being sooty brown, 
the throat clearer tawny buff. 
Range in Great Britain. — A resident bird in the southern coun- 
ties, having been known to breed in nearly every one of them 
from Kent to Cornwall, and it is even said to occur in the 
midlands, its most northern breeding record being one on Mr. 
Dixon’s sole authority in the neighbourhood of Sheffield. As 
Mr. Howard Saunders very properly says, it is such a skulking 
bird that it may very easily be overlooked even by a practised 
observer. In many parts of the south of England it has be- 
come much rarer of late years, having been apparently ex- 
tinguished by the severe and prolonged cold of some recent 
winters, such as that of xSSx. 
Range outside the British Islands. — The Dartford Warbler may 
be said to be a bird principally of the Mediterranean, whence 
it extends into France. It is common in most parts of Spain 
and Portugal, as well as in Southern France, but it does not 
appear to be resident in any part of Europe east of Italy, 
though it has been recorded from Palestine and Lower Egypt. 
In the Balearic Islands, as well as in Sardinia and Corsica, and 
also in Liguria its place is taken by the Sardinian Warbler, 
