340 S. F. Baird on the Distribution and 
aerial currents, of which mention e made hereafter. ie 
following are the only peculiarly North American or Greenland 
ee: 
species noted in Mr. Newton’s list: Faleo candicans Gmel., Nu- 
menius Hudsonicus Lath., Histrionicus torquatus B 
ive 
The British island of Heligoland in the North Sea, off the 
coast of Denmark, is of special interest in an ornithological 
e 
birds than any other locality of its extent (400 out of about 
500 species admitted by Blasius), as well as several Asiatic and 
North American species not recorded as having occurred else- 
where in Europe. To the labors of Herr Gatke, a resident of 
the island, extended over more than twenty years, we are Ir 
debted for the curious and remarkable facts referred to (Nav 
mannia, 1858, 419). The North American birds observed by 
Anthus Ludovicianus, Nor. 6, 1851.| Tryngites rufescens, May 9, sels 
Dendroica virens, Oct. 19, 1858. | Pelionetta perspicillata, Oct. 9 ae 
Harporhynchus rufus, Oct. —, 1857. | Xema Sabinii, Oct. 25, 184 : 
G Rhodostethia rosea, Feb. 5, 185 
eoscoptes Carolinensis, Oct. 28, 1840. 
Charadrius Virginicus, 20, 18417. 
The following North American birds are recorded in Prof. 
Blasius’s “List of the Birds of Europe, 1862,” edited by Newton, 
in the British Museum Catalogue of British birds, and in other 
authorities, as occurring in Europe :— 
Falco consdioatin, ‘gure ?Lanius excubitoroides, Neots 
auclerus furcatus and.) {Turdus Pallasii, : AY 
Nyctale Acadica, ) ) “ insoni, (Belgium; Italy. 
Scops asio, “ “ — migratorius, Germany. 
Colaptes auratus, . Anthus Ludovicianus, —_ (Heligoland. 
Picus villosus, a Vireo olivaceus,® (Chillaston, near Dery 
“ pubescens, . » May, 1859. 
Coceygus Americanus, - ulus Calendula, (England.) 
erythrophthalmus, (Lucca.) Ampelis cedrorum : 
Ceryle alcyon, (Ireland.) |Loxia Americana : 
Hirnade eh Wags (England.) “ — leucoptera, Be : m.) 
o, DerOner x ? Aegiothi uy’ 
sper nv setets (Heligoland.) Sion efria waaay (7 a pig 4 i) 
arporhynchus rufus, ; 6 England. 
Eialeocopien Cuatiaanen . Agelzus pheniceus, (Eng: 
5 Ibis, 1864, 894. * This, 1861, 177. 
