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Mr. Dann, both unimpeachable witnesses, was not known to many in this 

 country, and hardly, if at all, known to any beyond its limits. To which of 

 the naturalists last named belongs the credit of being the first Englishman to 

 ascertain the truth, I cannot say ; but the former, as an entry in the manuscript 

 journal (now in my possession) of his second visit to Iceland shews, obtained 

 a broken egg of this species on the 7th of August, 1837, and in succeeding years 

 received others ; while, from authentic examples (at least one of which is to 

 be mentioned immediately) obtained by the latter, Mr. Hewitson figured two 

 specimens in 184^ (Brit. Oology, Suppl. pi. clix). The captures of Mr. Milner 

 in Iceland (§§ 1305, 1306) and of Mr. Ileyworth in Lapland (see § 1225) were 

 still less known. Mr. Wolley indeed (Zoologist, p. 2983) declared himself 

 satisfied with the evidence that had been adduced, but I know that it afforded 

 him great pleasure to prove its accuracy by the event mentioned below 

 (§ 1307), a notice of which, extracted from one of his letters, he afterwards 

 allowed me to publish (Zoologist, p. 4204).] 



§ 1303. One. — Norway. From Mr. Dann, through Mr. Hugh 

 Reid, 1844. 



§ 1304. 0?ie. — From Mr. Dann, through Mr. Yarrell and Mr, 

 Wilmot, 1846. 



This was given to Mr. Wihnot by Mr. Yarrell, having been 

 " brought over by Dann or Hewitson, I forget which," — no dovibt 

 by Mr. Dann {vide Hewitson, Eggs Brit. Birds, ed. 2, p. 62). Mr. 

 Wilmot gave me the choice of his two specimens. This one is like 

 Mr. Hewitson's figure, the other specimen had not the spots collected 

 at the larger end. 



[I retain this egg in the Collection chiefly on account of the interest attach- 

 ing to it from its former owners. It is much larger than any well-authenticated 

 Redwing's that I remember to have seen. The circumstance of the gift is 

 mentioned also by Mr. Wilmot in the manuscript catalogue of his Egg-collec- 

 tion, now in the Museum of the University of Cambridge. Mr. Hewitson's 

 party did not obtain a single specimen of the Redwing's egg during their tour 

 in Norway in 1832.] 



§ 1305. 7ko.— Iceland, 1846. From Mr. Henry Milner, 1847. 

 I had not time to ask Mr. Milner for any particulars. 



§ 1306. 0;;^.— Iceland, 1846. From Mr. Henry Milner, 

 through I^Ir. D. Graham, 1847. 



Mr. Graham enlarged on the beauty of tb.e song of the Redwing, 



