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GARDEN WARBLER. 
GREATER PETTYCHAPS. 
Sylvia hortensis, LATHAM. BECHSTEIN. 
Curruca hortensis, SELBY. 
Motacilla hortensis, MONTAGU. 
Sylvia. Sylva—A wood. HAortensis—Belonging to gardens. 
Dr. LatHam was the first to notice this as a British bird, 
—a specimen having been obtained in Lancashire, and for- 
warded to him by Sir Ashton Lever, the founder of the 
Leverian Museum. 
It is found throughout the continent of Europe, from Italy 
to Denmark and Sweden in the summer. 
In Yorkshire it occurs in various situations, as near Hud- 
dersfield and Hebden Bridge, Halifax, Sheffield, Leeds, and 
York; in the East-Riding it is more uncommon, being mostly 
met with in its passage. Mr. B. Fawcett, of Driffield, 
obtained one in his garden there, the present year, 1853, and 
from it the plate is coloured. Near Scarborough it is scarce, 
according to Mr. Patrick Hawkridge, in “The Naturalist,’ old 
series, vol. ., p. 883. In Norfolk it is not very numerous. 
In Oxfordshire it occurs in gardens in abundance, as likewise 
m Cambridgeshire. In Derbyshire it is sparingly distributed. 
It occurs also in Wiltshire, Suffolk, Devonshire, Lincolnshire, 
Durham, Northumberland, and other counties. In Cornwall 
it is rare—has been met with at Budock. 
In Scotland it has been noticed in Dalkeith Park and 
Midealder, Lothian, between Lasswade and Roslin, at New- 
battle and Dalhousie, the Corstorphine Hill and Currie near 
Edinburgh, and various other parts. 
In Ireland it seems to be extremely rare. Mr. Templeton 
met with one on the 2lst. of May, 1820. It regularly breeds 
