. Our favourite song birds ; their habits, music, and characteristics . The bird is a littleover six inches in total length. THE GARDEN WARBLER Sylvia hortensis The Garden Warbler is even more locally dis-tributed in the British Islands than the is decidedly an English species, its range in Wales,so far as is yet known, not reaching beyondPembrokeshire and Breconshire; in Scotland tothe southern and central counties only ; whilst inIreland it embraces the counties of Cork, Tippe-rary, Fermanagh, and Antrim, and possibly thoseof Dublin and Wicklow. Its extra British range isvery sim
. Our favourite song birds ; their habits, music, and characteristics . The bird is a littleover six inches in total length. THE GARDEN WARBLER Sylvia hortensis The Garden Warbler is even more locally dis-tributed in the British Islands than the is decidedly an English species, its range in Wales,so far as is yet known, not reaching beyondPembrokeshire and Breconshire; in Scotland tothe southern and central counties only ; whilst inIreland it embraces the counties of Cork, Tippe-rary, Fermanagh, and Antrim, and possibly thoseof Dublin and Wicklow. Its extra British range isvery similar to that of the preceding species, but is alittle more northerly, reaching lat. 70° in the westand lat. 65° in the east. Its eastern limits are aboutthe same, but it appears only to pass South Italy,Greece and Asia Minor on migration, breedinghowever in Palestine and North-western winter home of the Garden Warblers breedingin the northern hemisphere is in the African portionof the Inter-Tropical Realm. The Garden Warbler is a later migrant than the32. X .rf^KrV SI2l^r^■^vfcl Garden Warbler The garden warbler 33 Blackcap, not reaching its British haunts before theend of April or early in May. Although verysimilar in its habits and in the haunts it frequents tothe latter bird, it is much more retiring and apt tobe overlooked even in districts where it is compar-atively common. It should also be remarked thatin localities where the Blackcap abounds theGarden Warbler appears to be proportionatelyscarce, but whether this is due to the antipathy ofthe birds for each others society, or the absence ofsome favourite food, or necessity of actual existence,we are not exactly prepared to say. Cover of somekind is most essential to this unobtrusive andskulking bird. It delights in thickets, the tangledunderwood in plantations and shrubberies, fruitgardens, orchards, dense hedges, and the interlacedvegetation growing near to streams. As in theBlackcap, the male Garden Warb
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