. An illustrated manual of British birds. Birds. SYLVIIN^.. 65. THE GREENISH WILLOW-WARBLER. Phylloscopus viridanus, Blyth. On September sth 1896 Mr. G. H. Caton Haigh shot a female of this Warbler at North Cotes, Lincolnshire, and this specimen, having been exhibited at the Meeting of the British Ornithologists' Club on October 21st, forms the subject of the present illustration. Mr. Haigh has remarked that " the weather prevailing at the time of its appearance was such as usually results in a great immi- gration of small birds; the wind backing to the east on the night of September 3rd,
. An illustrated manual of British birds. Birds. SYLVIIN^.. 65. THE GREENISH WILLOW-WARBLER. Phylloscopus viridanus, Blyth. On September sth 1896 Mr. G. H. Caton Haigh shot a female of this Warbler at North Cotes, Lincolnshire, and this specimen, having been exhibited at the Meeting of the British Ornithologists' Club on October 21st, forms the subject of the present illustration. Mr. Haigh has remarked that " the weather prevailing at the time of its appearance was such as usually results in a great immi- gration of small birds; the wind backing to the east on the night of September 3rd, and blowing from that quarter on the 4th and 5th, with heavy rain commencing to fall on the afternoon of the 4th, and continuing without intermission for twenty-four ; Ornithologists who deliberately go out to search for birds under such circumstances richly deserve the success which may reward one excursion out of a hundred. On Heligoland the Greenish Willow-Warbler was obtained on September 25th 1878, May 30th 1879, and June 3rd 1880. No other occurrences are known as yet in the Western half of Europe, but in Russia the species is found no farther off than the Olonetz department—a trifle to the north-east of St. Petersburg, Jaroslav and Kazan. Its true summer home is, however, more to the east- ward, on the wooded slopes of the Ural Mountains and the banks of the river of the same name, in Transcaspia, Turkestan, the TianShan Mountains (probably the Altai), and the Himalayas; while in winter the bird visits the greater part of the peninsula of India, and Ceylon. A newly-made nest, found by Mr. W. E. Brooks in Kashmir, at G. 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 and Jackson
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