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in winter seems ot.luu'wis(! mikiiowu iu (Ireat I>ritiiiii, for the 

 inforniiitioii, received l)y Pennant, as to its residing in Scot- 

 land all the year round is plainly erroneous. It also occasion- 

 ally happens that a nest is found in places far removed from 

 the usual summer-haunts of the species, and such instances 

 have heen recorded, on more or less good authority, in Hamp- 

 shire, Suftblk, Norfolk, Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, 

 Warwickshire and Cheshire. In the rocky parts of Cornwall, 

 Devon, Somerset, (Tloucestershirc, Monmouthshire, Wales, 

 Herefordshire, Staffordshire, Shropshire, Derhyshire and 

 thence northwjird to Caithness, the King-Ouzel, according to 

 the information collected hy Mr. More, breeds regularly every 

 year. In Orkney Mr. Dunn says its nest is sometimes found, 

 while the l)ird hivs l)een frequently ()l)served ; hut in Shetland 

 it is considered hy Dr. Saxhy to l)e only a passing visitor. 

 Bullock obtained a nest on one of the Hebrides, but Mr. 

 Gray has been unjible to trace it o)i ;uiy of the islands of the 

 Outer group. In Ireland it is found duriiig summer in suit- 

 able localities throughout the country. 



The King-Ouzel visits almost the whole of Europe. In 

 Norway and Sweden it breeds from lat. 58° northward to the 

 Varanger Fjord, but, if found at all, it is very rare in the 

 interior of Swedish Ija-])land as well as in Finland ; though 

 Prof. Lilljeborg met with it on the coast of Kussian La})land. 

 Pallas states that it never occurred to him in any part of the 

 Kussian Empire which he visited, but ho mentions its being 

 found in the Ukraine, the Crimea and the Caucasus (where 

 Menetries also killed it), and its having been received from 

 Persia. There is, however, no trace of it further to the 

 eastward than the Ural, where M. Martin is said to have pro- 

 cured il. it occurs in Turkey and Greece, but it is very rare 

 in the country last nsinied. Keysei-ling and Klasius say it 

 is found in winter in Syria and in Egypt. Canon Tristram 

 never met with it in Palestine, but Dr. von Heuglin was 

 assured hy Sig. Odescjilchi of Cairo that he hnd often killed 

 it in Lower Egypt. 



The chief winter-resort of the King-Ouzel seems not to be 

 at iill known, for it does not appear to be very abundant at 



