. A history of British birds / by the Rev. F. O. Morris . p and Italy, but migratory in all. In Asia also it hasbeen noticed, in the East Indies. The Lesi^er Wiiitethroat is found throughout the southernand eastern counties of England, and becomes more rare to thewestward and northward. In Yorkshire it is not an unusualspecies in the neighbourhood of Thirsk, as Mr. Swarbreckwrites me word; also near Halifax, Doncaster, Huddersfield,Hebden-Bridge, Sheffield, and York: near Bridlington it isseldom seen, and then only in spring and autumn, and isnot known to breed there. In Cumberland one was sho
. A history of British birds / by the Rev. F. O. Morris . p and Italy, but migratory in all. In Asia also it hasbeen noticed, in the East Indies. The Lesi^er Wiiitethroat is found throughout the southernand eastern counties of England, and becomes more rare to thewestward and northward. In Yorkshire it is not an unusualspecies in the neighbourhood of Thirsk, as Mr. Swarbreckwrites me word; also near Halifax, Doncaster, Huddersfield,Hebden-Bridge, Sheffield, and York: near Bridlington it isseldom seen, and then only in spring and autumn, and isnot known to breed there. In Cumberland one was shot byMr. J. Barnes, at Rose Hill, near Carlisle, in the summer of1849. In Devonshire one was shot at Mutley, recorded byR. A. Julian, Esq., Junior, in The Naturalist, volume i, page87: it occurs also in other parts. In Cornwall two wereseen near Budock Church, March 14th., 1848, as mentionedby Mr. Cocks, page 63. In Cambridgeshire it is far fromuncommon. In Derbyshire it is common, and in Surrey isextremely plentiful. It is found in Durham, Wiltshire,. \ LESSER TVniTETnEOAT. Ill Hampshire, Somersetshire, Gloucestershire, Suffolk, Xorf^^k,Eucks., Lincolnshire, and Northumberland. In Wales it is rare. In Scotland it has been noticed near Edinburgh, where,however, it is extremely rare; as also at Musselburgh, andin Haddingtonshire and Ayrslnre; also about Paisley, in Een-frewshire; and more commonly, it is said, at Hamilton, inLanarkshire. It has not yet been met with in Ireland or in Orkney. This bird frequents gardens, hedges, copses, shrubberies,snd thickets, especially the first-named if affording ampleshelter. It is not unfrequently to be seen in trees, where,perched on some open branch, with its plumage puffed out,its snow-white breast is an object of observation. It is attimes to be observed on commons, but only where there aretrees. It arrives here about the middle or the latter part ofApril, but sometimes earlier, for iSlr. Edward Blyth has takenthe nest on the 23rd. It re
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