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Title: Birds of Great Britain and Ireland, Order Passeres, complete in two volumes
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Butler, Arthur G. (Arthur Gardiner), 1844-1925 Grönvold, Henrik, 1858-1940 Frohawk, Frederick William, 1861-1946
Subjects: Birds Birds Passeriformes
Publisher: London : Caxton Pub. Co.
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he wall, in the first instance, to support a log-nest. This birdin due course became fairly tame; it was tolerably quick at seizing spiders ormealworms and even earwigs, when these were thrown into the aviary. In thespring it began to record its song on one or two occasions, but I never heard itsing out. Eventually a Rosas Parrakeet bit one of its wings through, and aweek later it died. Family—TURDID^. Sub/ami/y—SYL VIIN^. The Garden Warbler. Sylvia horknsis, Bechst. MORE delicate than the Blackcap, the Garden Warbler does not arrive inthis country until early in May, and towards the end of September itdeparts on its autumn migration. This species breeds locally throughoutEurope, from about 70° N. in Norway, and 65° N. in Finland and Russia, to the * A term applied to the process by which a wiUl-caught bird is induced to feed upon a soft mixtureMany aviculturists make the mistake of using finely chopped raw meat mixed with bread-crumbs for thispurpose, hence the term has arisen.
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/ •ii^^ Gardein Pl-t The Garden Warbler. 73 shores of the Mediterranean, but it does not appear to winter in Europe ; it isnot known to breed in Sicily or Greece, but Canon Tristram states that it doesso in Palestine; eastwards its range extends to lat. 59° in the Ural Mountains :its migration extends through Asia Minor and Eg>pt to the Sahara, Damaraland,the Transvaal and to the east of Cape Colony. Generall)- but very locall) distributed over the greater part of England, butnot recorded as breeding beyond Pembrokeshire and Breconshire in Wales, or inthe western part of Cornwall ; probabl)^ pretty generally distributed in Scotland,although this has been questioned ; it has nevertheless been seen in most of themidland and southern counties from Banffshire downwards. In Ireland the GardenWarbler is both local and rare, but it has been recorded from Antrim, Fermanagh,Dublin, Wicklow, Tipperary and Cork. Gatke states that the Garden Warbler though quite common at Heligolandduring b

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