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the East Hiding of York, and even there rare, though it has 

 been killed in the breeding-season in Cleveland. It is how- 

 ever frequently seen in Durham, though far from common 

 in Northumberland, and Mr. Hancock only knew of one 

 locality in the district where it bred. Yet it is described 

 as breeding regularly in Westmoreland, and its arrival at 

 Carlisle was observed by Heysham for several years in 

 succession. Across the border its appearance is much more 

 rare. Jardine (Br. B. ii. p. 359) had one killed on the 

 Solway, and one is said to have been found dead at Thornhill 

 in Dumfriesshire in October 1857 (Nat. 1857, p. 283), while 

 in the last Edition of this work one is said to have been 

 lately killed near Glasgow. It has also occurred in the 

 counties of Berwick and Roxburgh, and several times in 

 East Lothian and Fife. Col. Drummond-Hay (Scott. Nat. 

 iv. p. 333) believes it to be a regular though perhaps local 

 visitor to Perthshire, and Mr. R. Gray cites an instance of 

 its breeding in Inverness- shire, besides its occurrence in 

 Aberdeenshire and Sutherland, while Mr. Edward (Zool. 

 p. 6671) records one killed in Banffshire, and Mr. Shearer 

 (Proc. R. Phys. Soc. Edinb. ii. p. 336) mentions two examples 

 in Caithness. Baikie and Heddle record one caught at 

 Sandwick in Orkney, and a second seems to have been got 

 at Melsetter in 1841, while two came to the knowledge of 

 Saxby in Shetland. Herr H. C. Muller and Major Feilden 

 record three instances in the Faeroes. A single example 

 has been obtained in Ireland. This, as Mr. More informs 

 the Editor, was shot near Dunmore in Waterford, in the 

 summer of 1878, by Mr. Ernest Jacob, and exhibited by 

 Mr. A. E. Jacob to the Biological Section of the British 

 Association at its meeting in Dublin that year. 



On the continent the Wryneck's range extends to about 

 lat. 63 N. in Scandinavia, in Finland somewhat further 

 and in Russia to Archangel ; but on the eastern slopes of 

 the Ural it has not been found north of Ekaterinburg. 

 Thence it occurs across Siberia to Kamchatka, and is common 

 in Japan, for the form visiting that country cannot be 

 specifically separated, and is found in China, British Burma 



