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A common resident in the Br, Islands on the rocky 
coasts. An occasional visitor in spring and autumn in 
Holland. 
Genus Oriolus. 
Oriolus galbula Linn. 
A common summer visitor to Holland, breeding even in 
the gardens of large towns if high trees are to be found 
there; so I observed a pair a few years ago breeding in 
a square of gardens in the very midst of Amsterdam. 
A rare straggler on migration to England, having oc- 
casionally nested in the south. 
Genus Lanius. 
Lanius excubitor Linn. 
Breeds in Holland in the eastern provinces. A rare 
straggler in autumn to the British Islands. 
(Lanius major) Pall. 
Lanius minor Gmelin. 
A specimen was shot by Mr. Criellaert in his garden 
at Rotterdam in the autumn of 1859 or 1860. It was a 
male in summer plumage which is preserved in the Museum 
of the Zool. Garden of Rotterdam (A. A. van Bemmelen, 
Tijdschrift Ned. Dierk. Ver. dl. III, p. 197, 2¢ serie). A rare 
visitor in the Br. Isl. 
Lanius collurio Linn. 
A summer visitor to Holland and the Br. Islands. 
Lanius pomeranus Sparrmann. 
Breeds in small numbers in Holland in the provinces 
Gelderland and Noord Brabant. An accidental visitor on 
migration to the Br. Isl. 
Genus Ampelis. 
Ampelis garrulus Linn. 
An irregular winter visitor to Holland and the Br. Isl. 
Notes from the Leyden Museum, Vol. XV. 
