. An illustrated manual of British birds. Birds. SYLVIINyE. 4T. THE WHITETHROAT. Sylvia cin£rea, Bechstein. The Whitethroat arrives about the second week in April, remaining until the beginning of September. Throughout England, Wales and Ireland, it is the most generally distributed and plentiful of the Warblers ; while in Scotland it is also common, and has extended its breeding range to the Dornoch Firth and West Ross. In the Outer Hebrides it is now known to nest near Stornaway, and its autumnal occurrence in the Orkneys has recently been authenticated, but its appearance in the Shetlands i
. An illustrated manual of British birds. Birds. SYLVIINyE. 4T. THE WHITETHROAT. Sylvia cin£rea, Bechstein. The Whitethroat arrives about the second week in April, remaining until the beginning of September. Throughout England, Wales and Ireland, it is the most generally distributed and plentiful of the Warblers ; while in Scotland it is also common, and has extended its breeding range to the Dornoch Firth and West Ross. In the Outer Hebrides it is now known to nest near Stornaway, and its autumnal occurrence in the Orkneys has recently been authenticated, but its appearance in the Shetlands is exceptional. The Whitethroat breeds up to about 65° N., in Scandinavia, and southwards throughout Europe down to the Mediterranean. In Asia Minor it is only found in summer, although said to be resident in Palestine. It frequents the Canaries and Northern Africa in winter, and its migrations extend down the west coast to Damara- land. Eastward, it breeds in Turkestan and South-western Siberia, wintering in Egypt, Abyssinia, and Arabia; its place being taken in the Altai and Tian-Shan Mountains, and North-western India, by a larger, darker, and greyer form, distinguished as S. fuscipilea. To the north of the Caspian, the arid steppes beyond the Ural Mountains appear to form the eastern boundary of our Whitethroat. E. 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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