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Williamson of Scarborough, has observed this on the coast 

 of Yorkshire ; and Mr. Selby has recorded that, " on the 

 24th and 25th of October 1822, after a very severe gale, 

 with thick fog from the north-east, but veering towards its 

 conclusion to the east and south of the east, thousands of 

 these birds were seen to arrive upon the sea-shore and sand- 

 banks of the Northumbrian coast ; many of them so 

 fatigued by the length of their flight, or perhaps by the 

 unfavourable shift of wind, as to be unable to rise again 

 from the ground, and great numbers were in consequence 

 caught or destroyed. This flight must have been immense 

 in quantity, as its extent was traced through the whole 

 length of the coasts of Northumberland and Durham. 

 There appears little doubt of this having been a migration 

 from the more northern provinces of Europe, probably 

 furnished by the pine forests of Norway, Sweden, &c.> 

 from the circumstance of its arrival being simultaneous with 

 that of large flights of the Woodcock, Fieldfare, and Red- 

 wing. Although I had never before witnessed the actual 

 arrival of the Gold-crested Eegulus, I had long felt con- 

 vinced, from the great and sudden increase of the species 

 during the autumnal and hyemal months, that our indigen- 

 ous birds must be augmented by a body of strangers 

 making these shores their winter's resort." 



Mr. Macgillivray mentions this species as inhabiting 

 Scotland, and the Eev. Mr. Low and Mr. Dunn include it 

 in their accounts of the Birds of Shetland and Orkney ; it 

 inhabits also Denmark, Norway, Sweden, part of Russia 

 and Siberia ; but many of them, as indicated by the 

 autumnal flights referred to, leave the more northern parts 

 of these countries for the winter, and spread themselves 

 over the temperate portions to the southward, even to the 

 shores of the Mediterranean. It is found in Sicily and 



