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(Fcdco jyeregrinus) ; and an indication to that eftect seems 

 wanted. 

 Page 230, line 1. "The Vulture" to English ears would rather 

 signify Gyps falvus ; the epithet Black or Cinereous is re- 

 quired, to show which species is really intended. 

 Page 232, line 6 and elsewhere. " Harfang " conveys no significa- 

 tion to the ordinary English reader : by it is meant the Snowy 

 Owl. 

 Page 232, line 16. This assertion is wrong, the reverse being the 



case. 

 Page 232, lines 34-36. The statement is erroneous as regards the 

 British Isles, in some parts of which the Snowy Owl occurs 

 frequently almost everj' winter and not unfrequently at other 

 seasons. 

 Page 233, lines 5, 6. "At Spitzbergen .... the Snowy Owls sub- 

 sist on Lnyopus hemilencurus.'' This assertion can hardly be 

 reconciled with the fact that when it was written only two ex- 

 amples of this Owl had been recorded as observed in Spitzbergen ; 

 and one of these, according to Dr. Xalmgren, was probably 

 attracted by Walrus-carcasses. 

 Page 236, lines 1-6. It is very questionable whether the Nutcracker 

 ever inhabits Lapland, c(iually doubtful whether Swedish spe- 

 cimens are larger than those of temperate Europe, and certainly 

 wi'ong that the Nuclfraya hmchyrhijncha of Brehm is the 

 northern as distinguished from the southern form. If there 

 be any difference between the so-called N. hrachyrhyncha and 

 the true N. caryocatactes, it is most likely sexual, the former 

 being the cock and the latter the hen. The suggestion with 

 which the paragraph concludes is therefore founded on a mis- 

 apprehension. 

 Page 236, line 14. The Crossbill which has occurred (but only about 

 half-a-dozen times) in Greenland is Loxia leucoptera, an Ameri- 

 can species ; and accordingly the remark is inapplicable. 

 Page 237, line 10. For "the eastern parts of the north of Europe 

 and Asia " read " the most northern fir-forests of Europe, 

 Asia, and America." 

 Page 238, line 8. " The Stockdove. Columba livia.^^ C. livia, in 

 French Le Biset, is the " Rock-Dove " of Englishmen, and, as 

 is well known, the parent of all domestic races. The " Stock- 

 Dove," so called from its often breeding in stocks of trees, is 

 the C. oenas of authors. 

 Page 239, lines 8-14. The Willow-Grouse inhabits a great deal 

 more than " the north " of Europe, besides the greater part of 

 Siberia ; and it does most especially " frequent forests," though 

 not lower than the subalpine or subarctic zone. Its geographical 

 distribution is very different from that of the Snowy Owl, which 

 is not a forest-bird at all. 

 Page 239, lines Id et infra. My views in the paper (' Proceedings 

 of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia,' 1871, 

 p. 96) to which reference is made are much misrepresented. 



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