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The ElickcLni is a resident breeding I.: 

 Europe and Xcrth Africa : in Scandinavia it aj; - . 

 polar circle 



78. — American Eobin "Wo-ri^ 

 TURBUS MIGRATORIUS. 



U^ -*^ -O^- • 



At ; :, found bring on .- . -- . 



■^ oi the 14di of Ociooer IST-k haTing un- 

 -r-^ .::^-rli against the glasses, famishes ""r : - " -r-- • 

 of the occurrenc-e of -Ms species in Heligoland. T 

 bird was of neddish-brovm coloar: 



white, ^-- - - Unfbitanateh-, I did no'. , _ .„ . . . „_. 



collcoti - 



Theie oc-curred in that vear a Tery pow^erfdl migiat: 

 srvMu the far East: on the 11th of October a £7^t'ia - ~ . 



and on the 13th and 14th an example of EmberiBa ~ere 



killed. Akiuda aljpe^ris occorred in laige qaantitie;5 

 hundreds until the aid of the nKunth. On the _'' 

 the same Tear also — thoogh this has no cann 

 species at {oeseat under con^deraticat — I obtain:, 

 onhr example of Alauda tatarica, a female, whicL _.jo . 

 shot hereL The aboTe-mexiti<Hied example of this species 

 the present instance, hare reached Heligoland via A- 

 cre<ssed over to the latter continent &om Xorth Anrr' . 



Aleutiangioapof islands; the £ict of the simalt&:v ~ 

 of the other species mentioned above, as we" - 

 rear at which it was met with, strongfy sup^.r; :^^ .... - ^; ..^ 

 pursuii^ an east-to-west line of migration. 



According to Dalgleishs investigations ((^Otacjinreiios? «:>r Xorik 

 American Birds in Europe., Bullet of Cattail Ctob. t. ISSOV this 

 Thrush has been met with in Europe on five occasions : once in the 

 bird-market at Berlin, the example being preserved in the Badzi- 

 wiU ColIeeti<m : twice in the bird-market at Yienna, and once in 

 Bohemia: two of these latter example are preserved in the 

 Imperial and Boyal Museum in Tienna : finally, one example w«s 

 caught near Dover in the spring of 1S76- 



The breeding range of this species extends over the whole of 

 North America. 



