in Great Britain during the Nesting-season. 137 



Subprovinces 1-32, 34, 35. 



Lat. 50°-59^ " British " type, or general. 



On the mainland to Sutherland {Mr. St. John ) and Caith- 

 ness {Mr. Dunbar), but does not reach the Scottish isles. 



Troglodytes parvulus {Koch). Common Wren. 

 Provinces I.-XVIII. 

 Subprovinces 1-38. 

 Lat. 50°-61°. " British " type, or general. 



To the extreme north of Scotland. Common in the Outer 

 Hebrides and Orkney, and " a few breed annually in Shetland." 



Upupa epops {Linn.). Hoopoe. 

 Provinces II. III. IV. 

 Subprovinces 4, 5, 6, 7, 12. 

 Lat. 50°-52°. " Germanic " type. Not in Ireland. 



The Rev. A. C. Smith informs me that a nest, containing 

 young birds, has been taken in Wiltshire. The Rev. 0. Pickard- 

 Cambridge writes that a pair of Hoopoes are reported to have 

 bred at Warmwell, in Dorsetshire, many years ago. 



Mr. Jesse, in his * Gleanings,^ mentions a nest found near 

 Chichester. Latham records another pair whose nest was built 

 in Hampshire ; and Gilbert White also records that a pair of 

 Hoopoes frequented, for some weeks, an ornamental piece of 

 ground adjoining his garden at Selborne, and seemed disposed 

 to bi'eed, until driven away. 



Mr. Knox tells me that the nest has been found at Southwick, 

 near Shoreham. 



Mr. Blyth noticed a pair frequenting a garden near Tooting in 

 1833 {' Field-Naturalist,' 1834, p. 53) ; and in the ' Zoologist ' 

 (p. 564) Mr. J. P. Bartlett notices some eggs taken near 

 Dorking in 1841. 



The Rev. H. B. Tristram informs me that the nest has once 

 occurred in Northamptonshire. 



SiTTA c^siA {Meyer). Nuthatch. 

 Provinces I. -XII. 



Subprovinces 1-20, 21 ?, 22, 23, 24, 25. 

 Lat. 50°-55°. " English " type. Not in Ireland. 



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