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common in the Crimea and in Hungary, ex- 

 tending eastward to Western and North-western 

 India, where it is plentiful,^ and is found acci- 

 dentally in Italy, Switzerland, and France. Mr. 

 Howard Saunders has reason to believe that it 

 has been met with in Southern Spain in winter, 

 but Col. Irby is somewhat sceptical on the 

 point.^ 



In Sir Oswald Mosely's " Natural History 

 of Tutbury " (p. 385), it is reported that a pair 

 of the North American Red-eyed Flycatcher 

 {Muscicapa olivacea) appeared at Chellaston, 

 near Derby, in May, 1859, and one of them was 

 shot. If there was no mistake in the identifica- 

 tion of the species, one can only suppose that 

 the birds must have been brought over to this 

 country in a cage, and contrived to effect their 

 escape. 



^ Cf. Hume, " Joum. Asiatic Soc. Bengal," 1870, p. 116, 

 and Blanford, "Ibis," 1870, p. 534. 



2 See his " Ornithology of the Straits of Gibraltar," p. 224. 



