220 OUR SUMMER MIGRANTS. 



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it was observed at Torquay, but this was con- 

 sidered by my informant an unusually early 

 date at which to meet with it. 



Between April and the end of August, it may 

 be found generally distributed throughout the 

 British Islands, even as far north as Orkney 

 and Shetland. It is also a well-known visitor 

 to the Outer Hebrides. On the European 

 continent it occurs throughout Scandinavia and 

 Russia, and is found in all the countries south- 

 ward to the Mediterranean, which it crosses in 

 the autumn for the purpose of wintering in 

 North Africa. Eastward it extends through 

 Turkey, Asia Minor, and Persia, to India, and 

 according to Horsfield and Temminck, visits 

 even Java and Japan. 1 



The Cuckoo does not pair, but is polygamous. 



1 The late Mr. Blyth thought that the Cuckoo found in 

 Java by Dr. Horsfield was not the Common Cuckoo of 

 Europe, but an allied race (C. canoroides, Miiller, optatus, 

 Gould), whose range extends eastward at least to China, and 

 southward to Australia. If so, doubtless the same remark 

 applies to Japan. Cf. "The Ibis," 1865, p. 31. 



