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summer of 1867 it was unusually plentiful, especially in Benbecula and the west side of North 

 Uist. Even in the northernmost portion of the Long Island it is usually very common." 

 Dr. Saxby says that it is a very rare visitor to Shetland, but he has obtained there young birds 

 not fully feathered. In Ireland, as in England, it is a common and generally distributed summer 

 visitant, appearing from the 16th to the 30th of April, and leaving from the end of June to the 

 end of August, the young birds being the last to depart. 



It does not appear ever to visit Greenland or Iceland, but has occurred in the Faeroes. 

 Herr Muller records one from the island of Naalsoe, July 1861, a second in July 1862 ; and an 

 old male was shot near Kollefiord on the 16th June 1864. Throughout Scandinavia it is very 

 generally distributed, and, Mr. Collett says, is to be met with all through West and East 

 Finmark, but does not occur on the sterile foreshore and rocky islands of the extreme north. 

 In Porsanger it is found as far out as Kistrand, in 70° 21' N. lat., and is, indeed, met with in 

 every wooded locality in Norway. He adds that he found it exceedingly abundant on Tromso 

 and in the valley of the Maalselv in June and July 1872. Pastor Sommerfelt, who records it 

 from the Varanger fiord, states that it is not seen there every year. Sundevall says that it 

 arrives in Sweden in May and leaves in August, the old males being said to leave first, then 

 the females, and lastly the young, these often remaining till early in September. During the 

 summer it is found in Finland throughout the country up to the arctic circle, arriving in the 

 southern districts from the 6th to the 21st May, according to the season, and leaving early in 

 the autumn. In Russia it ranges far north ; for Messrs. Alston and Harvie-Brown speak of it as 

 being very common near Archangel; and Mr. Sabanaeff informs me that during the summer 

 season it is generally distributed throughout Central Russia in all suitable localities. It arrives 

 in Poland about the 25th of April, and remains until the end of September, being there, as 

 well as throughout North Germany, commonly and generally distributed. In Denmark, Mr. 

 Collin says, it is common, and found throughout the country, but, curiously enough, it is most 

 numerous on the treeless heaths or commons of Jutland and Schleswig. Throughout Holland, 

 Belgium, France, and Portugal the Cuckoo is a common summer visitant, arriving in April and 

 leaving again in August and September. De la Fontaine says that the hepatic form visits 

 Luxemburg annually, generally in the spring, but usually in small numbers, and that the 

 foresters and peasants believe it to be the female. It is found throughout Spain ; and, according 

 to Colonel Irby (Orn. Str. Gibr. p. 69), is "very plentiful near Gibraltar, especially in the cork- 

 wood and on all hill-sides wherever there are any trees." He says, "I saw a great many at the 

 top of the mountains at the back of Algeciraz at the end of May, but not beyond the line of trees. 

 1 first heard it on the 7th of April in 1868, on the 22nd March in 1870, on the 31st March in 

 1871, on the 29th March in 1872, and on the 30th of the same month in 1874. They remain till 

 the end of July." In Italy, as elsewhere, Salvadori says, it is met with throughout the country, 

 arriving in April and leaving in the autumn, and occurs annually on passage in Sicily, some few 

 remaining there to breed ; but Mr. A. B. Brooke states that he found it common on that island 

 in the summer. According to Mr. C. A. Wright it is common in Malta in the spring and 

 autumn, arriving rather later than the Wryneck, but, in general, preceding the Doves; and 

 Lord Lilford states (Ibis, 1860, p. 234): — "It arrives in Corfu in small numbers in April, and 

 remains a few days; occasionally seen on its return south in the early part of September. I 



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