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us : — " I believe the only specimens of this bird that have occurred in this country are the one in 

 Mr. Monk's collection at Lewes, in Sussex, taken near Brighton in September 1869, and my own 

 specimen caught near Hampstead, October 5th, 1870 ; both birds are females." Naumann once 

 found the Scarlet Grosbeak nesting on the Danish island of Sylt; and Mr. A. Benzon, of 

 Copenhagen, writes that "since it bred on Sylt in 1819, it has not been observed in Denmark." 

 According to Nilsson a female was caught on Gottland in the autumn, and is now in the 

 Stockholm Museum. In Finland Von Wright states that is found only in summer, being not 

 uncommon in the south-eastern part of that country. It arrives early in June, and leaves before 

 the end of August. A pair or two are found every year as high up as Kuopio. Dresser 

 observed it at Helsingfors, and procured a nest and eggs in the Botanical Gardens of that town, 

 where it is now found annually, although some years ago the bird was scarcely known in the 

 neighbourhood ; it appears to be extending its migi-ation westward every year. The fact of its 

 breeding in Finland was first noticed by Herr von Nordmann, who observed that it nests every 

 year in the Botanical Gardens at Helsingfors, in the tops of the maple and the Carangana 

 sibirica. Shortly after, Pastor Sommerfeldt stated that Nordvi and Schrader saw this bird near 

 Nyborg, on the Varanger Fiord ; and he has eggs from Polmak, which he has good reason to 

 believe are those of the Scarlet Grosbeak ; and Mr. R. Collett mentions that Herr Nordvi wrote 

 to him in 1867 and 1868 to the effect that this bird is not uncommon in East Finmark, along 

 the Tana river, and has been found breeding at Polmak and Skugge. Commenting on the 

 above, Professor Newton remarks, " The fact that Carpodacus erythrinus has now been found 

 breeding aL Polmak, on the Tana, is particularly interesting when taken in connexion with the 

 recent increase of its range in Finland, as observed by Nordmann." Meyer says that in the 

 Baltic provinces it was first observed at the end of August 1803 by Germann, when several 

 were caught near Dorpat. The Rev. Mr. Stoll found it several times near Riga and Jiirgensburg. 

 Naumann himself saw it during the summer in Silesia, but he states that in Central Germany it 

 is of rare occurrence, but has been seen in Hesse, on the Rhine. 



Concerning its capture in Germany, Dr. O. Finsch writes to us as follows : — " Tobias states 

 that this rare bird breeds in the deep valleys, as for instance in the Queissthal, near Flinsberg. 

 According to this, one would expect that it occurs here regularly ; this, however, is not the case, 

 as it has only once been found breeding in the valley of the Queiss river, at Flinsberg, in the 

 Iser mountains. I have seen the old birds, as also the young taken from the nest, in the 

 collection of Mr. Heydrich, of Flinsberg, a most excellent field naturalist, who discovered it." 

 Herr A. Von Homeyer, in his notes on Borggreve's ' Birds of N. Germany,' says, " R. Tobias 

 goes too far when he says it ' breeds in the deep valleys of the Silesian mountains.' The truth 

 is that Tobias procured a nest once from the Queiss valley, once, and only once. I can state 

 most decidedly that it does not now breed at Queiss." 



De Selys-Longchamps, in his 'Faune Beige,' writes: — "A single specimen was killed near 

 Tournay, another near Abbeville. It has also been found in the valley of the Rhine." Degland 

 and Gerbe say that it " appears more or less regularly on migration in Italy and Southern France. 

 In Lombardy, Liguria, Nice, and Provence its occurrence is not unfrequent. It is sometimes 

 even found in the north of France, as is shown by the capture of a young male in the suburbs of 

 Lille, on the 17th of September 1849." According to Baron J. von Muller it is met with 



