. An illustrated manual of British birds. Birds. sylviinjI!. 61. THE YELLOW-BROWED WARBLER. Phyll6scopus supercili6sus (J. F. Gmelin). This wanderer from Asia was introduced to the British list by the late John Hancock, who shot an example, now in the Newcastle Museum, on September 26th, 1838, on the sea-banks near Hartley, Northumberland, about four miles north of the Tyne. A second example, recorded by Gould as having been obtained near Chelten- ham on October nth, 1867, by Mr. J. T. White, passed into the collection of the late Sir John Harpur Crewe, while in the same month and year Mr. Pec
. An illustrated manual of British birds. Birds. sylviinjI!. 61. THE YELLOW-BROWED WARBLER. Phyll6scopus supercili6sus (J. F. Gmelin). This wanderer from Asia was introduced to the British list by the late John Hancock, who shot an example, now in the Newcastle Museum, on September 26th, 1838, on the sea-banks near Hartley, Northumberland, about four miles north of the Tyne. A second example, recorded by Gould as having been obtained near Chelten- ham on October nth, 1867, by Mr. J. T. White, passed into the collection of the late Sir John Harpur Crewe, while in the same month and year Mr. Pechell shot two in Scilly. On Septem- ber 25th, 1886, the first Scottish specimen was taken at the lantern of Sumburgh Head lighthouse, Shetland, by Mr. James Young- clause, as recorded by Mr. Harvie-Brown, to whom it was sent in the flesh ; on October 14th, 1890, the first Irish example was recorded from the Tearaght hght by Mr. R. M. Barrington ; 7th, 1892, Mr. G. H. Caton Haigh shot the bird now figured near Great Cotes, Lincolnshire ; three appear to have been taken near Beverley, Yorkshire, and one in Norfolk, in October, 1894 ; others are said to have been seen in Holderness, as well as in South Devon. On the Continent identified examples have been obtained, at intervals, near Berlin, Vienna, the Hague, Leyden, Hjelm in Den- mark, and on the Riviera ; while on Heligoland the Yellow-browed Warbler has been taken or seen more than eighty times between 1846 and the end of 1887—on its autumn migrations, with the exception of two in April and May (Gatke). Its summer home appears to be in the pine-forests of North-eastern Siberia, from the valley of the Yenesei eastward to the Pacific, and from the moun-. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Saunders, Howard, 1835-1907. London, Gurney a
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