. The birds of Yorkshire : being a historical account of the avi-fauna of the County . s Millers Thumb. ICTERINE WARBLER. liypolais icterina ( VieUloi). Extremely rare summer visitant from Continental Europe. The Icterine Warbler nests in Central and Northern Europe,being very abundant in north-east France ; it occurs regularlyin the Baltic Provinces and as far north as the Arctic Circlein Norway, while to the eastward the Ural Valley is its winter it migrates as far as 25° south latitude. There are but eight instances of its capture chronicledwithin the British Islands, one of these
. The birds of Yorkshire : being a historical account of the avi-fauna of the County . s Millers Thumb. ICTERINE WARBLER. liypolais icterina ( VieUloi). Extremely rare summer visitant from Continental Europe. The Icterine Warbler nests in Central and Northern Europe,being very abundant in north-east France ; it occurs regularlyin the Baltic Provinces and as far north as the Arctic Circlein Norway, while to the eastward the Ural Valley is its winter it migrates as far as 25° south latitude. There are but eight instances of its capture chronicledwithin the British Islands, one of these being at Easington,near Spurn, as mentioned by the late J. Cordeaux, whoinformed me that Mr. P. Loten of Easington sent him anadult male example which had been killed with a catapult,and was brought in by some boys, on 28th May 1891. skinned it, thinking it might be a Wood Wren, butwith grave doubts on the subject. The specimen was after-wards sent to Mr. W. Eagle Clarke, and was purchased for theRoyal Scottish Museum. {ZooL 1891, p. 308 ; Nat. 1891,p. 241; 1897, p. 201.). Keed Warblers nest, Hornsea Mere. R. Fortune. Sec page 90. REED WARBLER. 89 Messrs. W. Eagle Clarke and T. Laidlaw watched anundoubted example of this species for some time, at onlya few yards distance, in the garden at Kilnsea Warren, inSeptember 1897. REED WARBLER. Acrocephalus streperus {Vieillot). Summer visitant ; very locally distributed. Thomas Alliss Report on Yorkshire Birds, 1844, containsthe first known county reference to this species, thus :— Salicaria ariindinacea.—Reed Warbler. Arthur Strickland says : I have no doubt this species would be found in this [the East] Ridingif properly sought, but I am not aware I ever did see it here ; but inthe West Riding I found it many years ago in the neighbourhood ofRipon. I have still in my collection a nest from that neighbourhood,in which a young Cuckoo was brought up. Wm. Eddison remarksthat it is occasionally met with near Huddersfield, th
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