. The birds of Essex: a contribution to the natural history of the country. Birds. 84 THE BIRDS ^OF ESSEX. stead Park, where the wood echoes in early summer with its fine ; Round Orsett it is uncommon (Sackett). At Harwich it is " scarce," though it breeds (Kerry). Garden Warbler : Sylvia hortensis. A fairly-common summer visitor, coming to us about the begin- ning of May and leaving again late in September. It breeds through- out the county, though rather sparingly. It is not infrequent in the Forest and in Wanstead Park, where " it used to be common about the avenues
. The birds of Essex: a contribution to the natural history of the country. Birds. 84 THE BIRDS ^OF ESSEX. stead Park, where the wood echoes in early summer with its fine ; Round Orsett it is uncommon (Sackett). At Harwich it is " scarce," though it breeds (Kerry). Garden Warbler : Sylvia hortensis. A fairly-common summer visitor, coming to us about the begin- ning of May and leaving again late in September. It breeds through- out the county, though rather sparingly. It is not infrequent in the Forest and in Wanstead Park, where " it used to be common about the avenues " (Buxton—47. 90). At Harwich it is " scarce," though it breeds (Kerry). Dartford Warbler: Melizophilus undatus. A resident, but uncommon and very local, though it breeds in most of the southern counties, and even occasionally as far north as Sheffield. I am only aware of three occurrences in Essex, thcmgh careful search on some of our furze-covered commons might reveal the bird, as it is exceedingly shy and retiring in its habits. The Parsons Collection contains a male, shot on South Shoebury Common in Nov. 1837. Mr. Travis, in June, 1880, received for preser- vation a specimen shot near Saffron Walden. Mr. Charles Smoothy shot aspecimen, which is now in his collection, at Great Chesterford, on the Cambridge- shire border, on Dec. 5th, 1870. Mr. Harting (38. 17) gives no Essex localities. Gold-crest: Regulus cristatus. A resident throughout the county, though not common. Its numbers are often greatly increased in autumn by the arrival _---=.-^_ of flocks from elsewhere. Dr. Derham informed Albin (3. i. 98) that it built its nest " every year in fir-trees growing before his house at Upminster, in Essex, and that with great art, hanging them \sic\ under the branches in some thick obscure part ; Mr. Clarke says (24), it used to be " rather comrtion round Walden," and on Oct. 9th, 1880, I saw many in gardens there, probably new arrival
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