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annually in Provence in pairs during the months of August and September. Respecting its 

 occurrence in Spain, our friend Mr. Howard Saunders sends us the following note : — " Lopez- 

 Seoaue states that it is ' rare in Sierra Nevada in February,' which is certainly possible, though I 

 have never succeeded in finding it in any part of Spain, dead or alive, nor have any of my 

 collectors during the last four years been more fortunate." Mr. C. A. Wright chronicles its 

 appearance in Malta in these words : — " Schembri records the capture of two examples on the 

 25th of December 1839, under the name of Fringilla incerta, a pseudo-species, now recognized 

 as the young of P. erythrina." Italy, likewise, is visited in the autumn by this species ; and it was 

 here that Risso obtained the birds he named Fringilla incerta, of which more anon. It has also 

 been included in the avifauna of Greece by those authors who suppose the Pyrrhula sinaica of 

 Von der Miihle to be referable to the present species ; but of the correctness of this identification 

 we are by no means certain, and should prefer waiting for further evidence before merging the 

 above-named bird into a synonym of C. erythrinus. In Southern Russia, Professor von Nordmann 

 says it appears regularly on the spring migration, singly or in pairs, in the Botanical Gardens of 

 Odessa. It calls incessantly from the tops of high trees, its note sounding like hi-u-ti-u hi-u-ti-u, 

 which may be heard at some distance. It is common in the provinces to the east of the Black 

 Sea. Menetries says : — " It is common enough on the Caucasian Alps, and affects the top of the 

 high grasses, whence it utters a song very similar to that of the Common Chaffinch, only at a 

 height of six or seven thousand feet. The female is rather rare, and does not sing at all." 

 Dr. E. Eversmann writes as follows : — " Very common on the Central Volga, in Kazan, and the 

 Southern Ural. Towards the autumn they collect in flocks, and wander through the scattered 

 groves for a time, leaving us in September and October, returning again early in April." 

 Lehmann says it was " observed at Orenburg and on the east coast of the Caspian Sea in May." 

 In Dauria, according to MM. Dybowski and Parrex, it is common during passage, but rare in 

 the summer. Dr. L. von Schrenck says that is found in all Siberia to Kamschatka, and nests on 

 the Amoor, in the willow thickets on the low and marshy islands. Radde states that the first of 

 these birds arrived at the Tarei-Nor in the night of the 25th to 26th March, and says they breed 

 there. In the Baikal mountains he saw small flocks on the 14th of April 1859 ; the males were 

 then in full song. On the loth of June 1856, in ascending the Sochondo he observed a pair at 

 an altitude of 8000 feet above the sea-level. Middendorff found it all through the Stanowoj 

 mountains, on the Uda, and south coast of the Sea of Ochotsk, common and breeding. In the 

 middle of April it arrived at Udskoj-Ostrog. From Kamschatka Kittlitz brought specimens, 

 which were remarkable for brilliancy, and which might, so thought Bonaparte and Schlegel, 

 constitute a distinct race. 



Mr. Swinhoe records it as a winter visitant to China ; and Pere David says it " abounds during 

 the spring passage, but does not repass here in autumn." 



We copy the following notes from Dr. Jerdon's most excellent work on the Birds of India : — 

 " The Rosefinch is found as a cold-weather visitant throughout the greater part of India, more 

 rare towards the south, common in Central and Northern India, and in the Himalayas, chiefly, 

 however, at the foot of the hills and in the valleys ; and it extends into Assam and Arracan. 

 Out of India it is found over a great part of Central and Northern Asia and Europe. It visits 

 the plains during October, and leaves in April. In March many are taken in fine breeding- 



