20 Mr. A. G. More on the Distribution of Birds 



Hist. iii. p. 467), but unfortunately that gentleman did not see 

 the birds himself. In his 'Tour in Sutherland' (i. p. 206) Mr. 

 St. John says, " I was shown a nest and eggs from near the 

 Spey." Other instances of supposed nests or of the bird having 

 been observed in summer may be found in the ' Zoologist/ the 

 ' Field/ and other periodicals, but there is little doubt that in 

 nearly all cases the Mistletoe-Thrush has been mistaken for the 

 Fieldfare. 



TuRDus TORQUATUS (L.). Ring-Ouzcl. 



Provinces I.-XVIII. 



Subprovinces 1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 10, 1 1, 14, 15, 17, 18, 20-35, 36 ?, 37. 



Lat. 50°-59°. " Scottish " or Northern type. 



Nests regularly in the hilly parts of the west and north of 

 England, and throughout Scotland. The nest has also been 

 found occasionally in the Isle of Wight, Kent, Suffolk, Norfolk, 

 Warwick, and Leicester. Mr. Dunn tells me that the Ring- 

 Ouzel breeds occasionally in Hoy ; and Yarrell mentions that 

 Mr. Bullock found the nest in the Hebrides. 



Oriolus galbula {L.). Golden Oriole. 



Provinces I. II. ? III. IV. 



Subprovinces 2, 4?, 7, 10, 11. 



Lat. 50°-53°. "English'' or Southern type. Not in Ireland. 



The Rev. M. A. Mathews writes that the Golden Oriole has 

 been known to breed in some pleasure-grounds near Barnstaple. 



In Dorsetshire a male Golden Oriole was seen frequenting a 

 garden near Blandford for more than a week, and was supposed 

 to have a nest [Rev. 0. Pickard-Camhridge, in 'Zoologist,' 1854, 

 p. 4366). 



In Kent the nest has several times been found : in a planta- 

 tion near Ord, in 1836 (Zoologist, p. 834); near Elmstone, in 

 1849 (Zoologist, p. 2496) ; near Sandwich (Zoologist, p. 3034). 

 Mr. Charles Gordon, of the Museum, Dover, mentions a nest 

 taken near Elmstead ; and adds that the bird appeared again in 

 the same locality in 1861. 



Meyer, in his ' Illustrations of British Birds,' figures a nest 



