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eighty miles from Malta and fifty from Cape 

 Passaro, the nearest land. Two days later 

 another alighted on the rigging sixty miles from 

 Calabria, and one hundred and thirty-five from 

 Mount Etna. On the 26th of April, eighty 

 miles from Zante and one hundred and thirty 

 from Navarino, a Willow Wren and a Chiff-chaff 

 were found dead on board, presumably from 

 exhaustion, as they were apparently uninjured. 

 Many other such instances are on record. 



The present species may be regarded as the 

 commonest of the three which visit us, being 

 generally dispersed in favourable localities over 

 the whole of Great Britain and Ireland. Al- 

 though it has not been met with in the Hebrides, 

 the Willow Wren has occasionally been seen in 

 Orkney, and the late Dr. Saxby has recorded a 

 single instance of its occurrence in Shetland. 

 Through every country in Europe it seems to 

 be well known as a periodical migrant. 



The winter quarters of the Willow Wren are 

 to a certain extent those of its congeners, that 

 is to say. Northern Africa and Palestine, where 



