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Scientific Proceedings, Royal Dublin Society. 
Corvipa—continued. 
America. 
different. (Baird, Brewer, and Ridg- 
way.) 
Europe. 
Magpie may be given as extending 
over the entire Palearctic region, and 
a local race which I consider identical, 
being found in Western North 
America.” British specimens are 
found marked like the American, and 
also specimens from Eastern Siberia, 
with white on the throat like 
American birds. The differences in 
the tail of the American bird are not 
constant. (Birds of Europe.) 
ALCEDINIDZE. 
Ceryle alcyon.* Boie. (Belted Kingfisher.) 
All North America; south to Panama, 
and in the West Indies. (Baird, 
Brewer, and Ridgway. ) 
Ceryle alcyon. 
_It has occurred once in the county 
Meath, October, 1845. (Thompson, 
Nat. Hist. Ir. Birds, Vol. I., p. 373.) 
And once at Luggelaw, county Wicklow, 
1845. (Thompson, op. cit.) 
CucuLip”. 
Coccyzus americanus.* (1...) Bp. (Yellow- 
billed Cuccoo.) 
The whole of North America, and has 
been once found in Greenland in 1874. 
(F. Benzon. Dresser.) 
Coceyzus erythrophthalmus.* (W.) Bp. 
(Black-billed Cuccoo. ) 
Eastern North America. 
Coccyzus americanus. 
One was found at Youghal, Ireland, 
1825. (Yarrell.) 
One at Bray, Ireland. (Yarrell.) 
One in Cornwall. (Yarrell.) 
One in Pembrokeshire, 1832. (Yarrell.) 
One near Aberystwith, 1870. (Cousens, 
The Field, 5 November, 1870.) 
And one at Hainault, Belgium, 1874. 
(Dubois. ) 
Coccyzus erythrophthalmus. 
One occurred at Lucca, Italy, 1857. 
(Dr. Carle Bolle.) 
One was killed in the county Antrim, 
Ireland, 1871. (Lord Claremont, 
Zool., 1872, p. 8022.) 
Picipz. 
Picus villosus.* Linn. (Hairy Wood- 
pecker. ) 
Eastern North America to the Rocky 
Mountains; south to Texas, and west 
along the 49th parl. to British 
Columbia. (Baird, Brewer, and Ridg- 
way.) 
Picus pubescens.* Linn. (Downy Wood- 
pecker. ) 
From British Columbia to Labrador; 
and in the United States, east of the 
Rocky Mountains, and south to Texas. 
(Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway.) 
Picus villosus. 
A pair occurred at Halifax, Yorkshire. 
(Latham, Gen. Syn., Vol. II., p. 578.) 
And one at Whitby, Yorkshire, 1849. 
(Higgins, Zool., 1849, p. 2496.) 
Picus pubescens. 
One occurred at Bloxworth, near Bland- 
ford, Dorsetshire, December, 1836. 
(Rev. O. P. Cambridge, Zool., 1859 
p. 6444.) 
