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The bird was exhibited on June 19th before the British 

 Ornithologists' Club, on my behalf, by Mr. C. B. Ticehurst, 

 and from the remarks then made, it appears that this is 

 the first really authentic occurrence of this species recorded 

 in the British Islands, though Mr. Howard Saunders in 

 his " Manual of British Birds " [2nd ed., p. 46 (1899)] 

 states that "Mr. W. D 'Urban saw what was apparently a 

 bird of this species in his garden at Exmouth, on April 

 16th, 1890," and, in continuation, Mr. Saunders writes : 

 *' There is not the least improbability of this bird occurring 

 in the British Isles, since it is common in the South of 

 France and the Peninsula." 



Mr. H. E. Dresser, in his " Manual of Palsearctic Birds," 

 gives the habitat of this species as " The Mediterranean 

 area, from Portugal, Spain, and South of Prance to Asia 

 Minor and Palestine, wintering in North Africa " ; and in 

 his " Birds of Europe " he states that this species is 

 common in the South of France and Portugal, extremely 

 nmnerous in Spain, that in Italy it is found in Liguria, 

 southwards into Sicily, but had not up to that time been 

 noticed in Piedmont ; it has been recorded in Malta, where 

 it is likely that it sometimes breeds ; it is also resident 

 and tolerably numerous in Greece, and has been observed 

 near Trieste, and is found along the banks of the Danube 

 in Bessarabia, and several specimens have also been 

 obtained near Constantinople. 



Mr. Dresser adds that it breeds in the Uman district of 

 Southern Russia, where, however, it is a very rare species, 

 and that it occurs in Asia Minor, is common in North 

 Africa, as it is also in Algeria and the Atlas in winter ; 

 and we further learn that it is numerous in Eastern 

 Morocco, has been met with in Timis, and that it inhabits 

 the Canary Islands. 



I can personally speak as to the abundance of this 

 species in Southern Spain (Andalucia) and Algeria, and 

 that it is not micommon in the Canary Islands ; I, however, 

 never met with it in Tunis, though I made many excursions 

 in the regency. Gatke mentions one occurrence in 



