436 Alexander Goodman More Scientific Papers. 



To the extreme north of Scotland. Common in the Outer Hebrides 

 and Orkney, and '* a few breed annually in Shetland." 



UPUPA EPOPS (Linn.}. Hoopoe. 



Provinces II. III. IV. 



Subprovinces 4, 5, 6, 7, 12. 



Lat. 50-52. " Germanic " type. Not in Ireland. 



The Rev. A. C. Smith informs me that a nest, containing young 

 birds, has been taken in Wiltshire. The Rev. O. Pickard- Cambridge 

 writes that a pair of Hoopoes are reported to have bred at Warmwell, in 

 Dorsetshire, many years ago. 



Mr. Jesse, in his ' Gleanings,' mentions a nest found near Chi- 

 chester. Latham records another pair whose nest was built in Hamp- 

 shire ; and Gilbert White also records that a pair of Hoopoes fre- 

 quented, for some weeks, an ornamental piece of ground, adjoining his 

 garden at Selborne, and seemed disposed to breed, until driven away. 



Mr. Knox tells me that the nest has been found at Southwick, near 

 Shoreham. 



Mr. Blyth noticed a pair frequenting a garden near Tooting in 1833 

 ('Field Naturalist,' 1834, p. 53); and in the 'Zoologist' (p. 564) Mr. 

 J. P. Bartlett notices some eggs taken near Dorking in 1841. 



The Rev. H. B. Tristram informs me that the nest has once occurred 

 in Northamptonshire. 



SITTA CASSIA (Meyer}. Nuthatch. 



Provinces I.-XII. 



Subprovinces 1-20, 21 ?, 22, 23, 24, 25. 



Lat. 50-55. "English" type. Not in Ireland. 



Throughout England ; but rare in the north-western counties. 



Mr. Eyton describes the Nuthatch as common in Shropshire and 

 North Wales. Mr. Gregson considers it numerous at Dunhorn Park, 

 on the Cheshire side of the Mersey, and also in the woods at Wyresdale, 

 North Lancashire ; but Mr. Brockholes has not met with it in either 

 county. 



Dr. Heysham records one pair as breeding regularly, in his day, in 

 Cumberland. 



Mr. Hancock marks the Nuthatch as breeding occasionally in 

 Durham ; and Mr. Selby has found the nest in Northumberland. 



CUCULUS CANORUS (Linn.}. Cuckoo. 

 Provinces I.-XVIII. 

 Subprovinces 1-35, 36, 37, 38. 

 Lat. 50-61. " British" type, or general. 



Throughout the mainland ; but appears to be less numerous in the 

 isles. 



Mr. John Macgillivray has recorded its occurrence in North Uist. 



