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Iceland .94 per cent. 



The Faroe Islands . . . . 96 

 The west coast of Norway . . 92 ,, 

 The Birds of Scandinavia . . . 88 ,, ,, 

 On an intermediate meridian line, in- 

 cluding Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, 

 and the Bay of Fundi, the propor- 

 tion of British species is . . 55 ,, ,, 

 Philadelphia, as shown by Prince 

 Charles Lucien Bonaparte in his 

 comparative Catalogue of the Birds 

 of Philadelphia and Rome, has . 32 ,, 

 Bermuda, 500 miles east of Carolina . 58 ,, ,, 

 Of the proportions of the two great divisions of these 

 Land and Water Birds, four-fifths belong to the Waders 

 and Swimmers, GRALLATORES and NATATORES. Of the 

 Land Birds the proportion is only one-fifth, and these, 

 almost confined to the Raptores. Sir John Richardson 

 and Mr. Swainson have remarked that nearly one-third of 

 the American Falconidae belong also to Europe. The 

 late Mr. Audubon told me that on one of his voyages 

 between this country and America, and when 300 miles 

 from the west coast of Ireland, he saw a Peregrine Falcon 

 pass over the vessel in rapid and vigorous flight ; the 

 direction pursued being a line to the Azores. 



The Owls, though some of them only are migratory, 

 from the lightness of their bodies and the large expanse 

 of their wings, appear to fly without much labour. The 

 nephew of Dr. Jenner, when on board a vessel going in 

 a direct course for Newfoundland, and more than 100 



