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DARTFORD WARBLER. 
FURZE WREN. 
— Sylva provincialis, SCHLEGEL. 
“«  dartfordiensis, LaTHAM. 
Motacilla provincialis, GMELIN. 
Melizophilus provincialis, SELBY. 
Curruca provincialis, FLEMING. 
Sylvia. Sylva—A wood. Provincialis—Provincial. — 
In Spain, Italy, and the south of France this species is 
met with. | 
The earliest specimen noticed in Britain was obtained on 
Bexley Heath, near Dartford in Kent, in April, 1773, and it 
thence derived its Anglican name. ‘The circumstance was 
first made known by Dr. Latham, and Pennant recorded it in 
the ‘British Zoology’ published in 1776. Since then the 
bird has been repeatedly met with in various parts of the 
south of England, occurring on most of the furze-clad commons 
of Kent, Surrey, and Middlesex; at Blackheath, Barnes 
Common, Burwood Common, St. George’s Hill, Wimbledon 
Common, Wandsworth Common, Godalming, and Shooter’s 
Hill; in Devonshire, near Teignmouth, Kingsbridge, and to 
the north of Exeter; Truro, Falmouth, and Penzance, in 
Cornwall; Alton and Andover, in Hampshire; in Worcestershire; 
Melton Mowbray, in Leicestershire; the Downs near Lewes, 
Sussex, in September, 1850; and near Chichester, as A. Fuller, 
Esq., of Broyle House, informs me—one in 1852, and five 
previously. A few have been known to breed on Cannock 
Chace, Rugeley, Staffordshire, by R. W. Hawkins, Esq.; and 
one has occurred on the Denes near Yarmouth, Norfolk. 
The Dartford Warbier is exclusively confined to heaths 
end commons, the rough cover of such affording it the se- 
curity that it desires. 
