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now preserved in spirits at the Copenhagen Museum having been procured at Séndermarken, 
near that town. The most northerly occurrence on record in the Baltic is that referred to by 
the late Professor Sundevall, who says that an old female was obtained by Dr. Kriiper on the 
24th May, 1855, at sea, off the Landsort’s Lighthouse, south of Stockholm. I find no record of 
its having ever been met with in Finland; but Mr. Sabandeff informs me that it occurs in Central 
Russia, breeding in the Governments of Jaroslaf and Moscow, and it has been said to have been 
met with near St. Petersburg. He did not, however, find it in any part of the Ural he visited. 
It is to be met with on the island of Riigen and in North Germany, especially in Pomerania, 
where, though Borggreve speaks of it as being a very rare species, it appears to be by no means 
so uncommon. 
Herr A. von Homeyer writes (J. f. O. 1870, p. 227) that it breeds in the Zarntiner beech- 
woods (Grimmen, Pomerania) on the Trebel; he observed it near Glogau on passage, and found 
it breeding at Cudova, in the mountains of Silesia. Bolle obtained it near Berlin; Von Preen 
records it from Mecklenburg; and Tobias procured it once in May in Oberlausitz. 
In Western Germany it appears to be wanting; and it is not recorded from the northern 
provinces of France, Holland, or Belgium; but Messrs. Jaubert and Barthélemy-Lapommeraye 
cite two instances of its occurrence in Provence. 
According to Mr. Saunders (Ibis, 1871, p. 206), ‘‘Seoane states that a specimen was obtained 
at San Roque in 1857, and passed into his collection ;” 
told him that a single bird used to come to his veranda at Utrera each November, remaining till 
March. Baron J. W. von Miiller states (J. f. O. 1856, p. 226) that it has been met with in 
Corsica; and it is said to occur as a rare straggler in Switzerland. Count Salvadori gives two 
and a friend who knew the bird thoroughly 
instances of its occurrence in Italy ; but he doubts its being met with in Sardinia or Sicily. 
In Southern Germany it is likewise met with, but is rare. Dr. Fritsch did not appear to 
‘have known of any undoubted instances of its occurrence in Bohemia, as he refers merely to a 
specimen in the Prague Museum, said to have been killed there; but the Ritter von T’schusi- 
Schmidhofen has shown that it does occur in that country. ‘This gentleman, who met with it 
in the Bohmerwald, thus placing its occurrence in Bohemia beyond doubt, writes to me as 
follows :—‘‘In Moravia both Professor Jeitteles and Talsky have seen and obtained specimens ; 
Dilles also observed it in Silesia; and I saw two examples from Grafenberg, in the Troppauer 
Museum. ‘There are specimens in the Vienna Museum from the vicinity of that town; and 
Zelebor observed it on several occasions at Dornbach, near Vienna, where it probably breeds. 
“In Upper Austria it has been once obtained near Linz; and Althammer observed it on one 
occasion in the Tyrol; Von Hueber says that it occurs rarely and singly during passage in 
Carinthia (Karnten); and Hanf obtained a single example, a male, in Upper Styria. Seiden- 
sacher also found it in Styria breeding, but very rare; and he observed two males in June near 
Illova, in Croatia. In Upper Hungary it is said by Brusek and Schnablick to be by no means 
rare in the Gdmerer Comitat, where it breeds; and Baldamus states that it breeds in the Banat. 
Bielz says that it is tolerably common in some parts of Siebenbiirgen ; and Von Csato obtained 
several in his garden in Koncza.” Messrs. Danford and Harvie-Brown record it from Tran- 
sylvania, and write (Ibis, 1875, p. 301) as follows:—“ Herr Klir, when with us, observed one 
near Zih; and it is not uncommon during autumn in some parts of the country, especially on 
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