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Title: An illustrated manual of British birds
Identifier: cu31924000047815 (find matches)
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Saunders, Howard, 1835-1907
Subjects: Birds
Publisher: London, Gurney and Jackson
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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RADDE'S BUSH-WARBLER. LuscmfoLA scHWARZi (Radde). For the discovery in England of this wanderer from Eastern Siberia ornithologists are indebted to the persistent researches of Mr. G. H. Caton Haigh. On the ist of October 1898, according to his custom at the time of migration, Mr. Haigh was diligently "working" the hedgerows which border the long sea-banks on the Lincolnshire side of the Humber, and, when near North Cotes (where he obtained the first British specimen of the Greenish Willow-Warbler), he was attracted by a strange and particularly powerful note. Thereupon the hedgerow was thoroughly beaten out, and the owner of the loud voice proved to be the Warbler in question—a bird about the size of a Wood-Wren. Easterly winds had been prevalent for some time. The illustration is taken from this .specimen, kindly lent for the purpose. Radde discovered this Warbler in a kitchen-garden at Kulus- sutajevsk, near the Tarei-nor, Transbaikalia, on the 22nd of September 1856, and named it Sylvia (Fkyllopieuste) schwarzi, after his friend the astronomer to the expedition (Reis Siid. Ost-Sibir Bd. ii. pp. 260-263, tav. x. figs. 1-3). He afterwards found it in theChingan Mountains; Dybowsky met with it in Daiiria and the Ussuri country; Schrenck in the Amur Valley, and Dr. Nikolski in the south-western forests of the Island of Saghalien. From the dates at which specimens were obtained the bird evidently breeds in the above districts, but nothing is known of its nidifica- tion. The most detailed account of this Warbler is by Godlewski, who writes to the following effect:—On its migrations this species

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