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localities. In Scotland its occurrence is chiefly accidental, 

 and for the most part in winter only ; but it has been 

 obtained near New town -Stewart in Galloway, and has been 

 traced, according to Mr. Gray, from Dumfriesshire to East 

 Lothian, and thence to Perthshire, Aberdeenshire, Banff- 

 shire where Mr. Edward informed Mr. More that he 

 believed a pair had once bred and Caithness. 



Eastward and northward from the British Isles this bird 

 is found occasionally in the extreme south of Norway, but 

 can scarcely be considered an annual visitor to that country. 

 In Sweden it extends further towards the north, having been 

 seen by Zetterstedt (Kesa genom Umea Lappmarker, p. 156), 

 at Wilhelmina in Asele Lapprnark. In Finland it is still 

 rarer and it seems not to appear generally in Russia north 

 of Rostoff, lat. 60 N. though, as Mr. Harvie Brown informs 

 the Editor, an example has been obtained at Archangel : it 

 must however be more common in the south. It is found 

 throughout the middle and southern parts of Siberia, having 

 been met with at Irkutsk and on the Amoor. In Mongolia 

 it is said to be a bird of double passage and rather numerous. 

 Mr. Swinhoe speaks of it as ranging in China from Pekin to 

 Shanghai, and it occurs in Japan, whence specimens have 

 been described by Temminck and Prof. Schlegel as forming a 

 variety Coccothraustes vulgaris japonicus, but these Mr. 

 Dresser declares can be matched by others from Spain and 

 Italy.* It has not yet been recognized from India, but is 

 found, though rarely, in Persia, and in Asia Minor it is 

 said to be a resident. Canon Tristram met with it once 

 in Palestine, near Gilead ; and it occasionally strays to 

 Egypt, whence a single example is said to have been pro- 

 cured. In Algeria it is more frequent, and it has occurred, 

 says Loche, in all the three provinces of that country. 

 In Morocco, however, it would seem again to grow scarce, 

 though there is incontestable proof of its appearance in that 



* This careful ornithologist states that, on comparing a series of specimens 

 from various localities, he finds that those from Northern Europe are duller in 

 colour than others from more southern countries, and that natives of our islands 

 are perhaps the dullest of all, though sometimes a British example may be found 

 as richly coloured as any from the South of Europe. 



