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of a specimen being procured. He adds, " It 

 is chiefly, perhaps, a cold-weather visitant in 

 the south of India; but it is found to remain 

 all the year further north." 



I have already touched upon the question 

 whether any of our summer migrants breed in 

 their winter quarters, as well as in their summer 

 haunts (see p. 41), and it may be well to note 

 here the above remark of Dr. Jerdon, as well 

 as the observation of Captain Loche, that the 

 Wryneck breeds in the forests of Algeria. It 

 of course remains to be shown, whether the 

 individuals which rear their young south of the 

 Mediterranean, ever migrate into Europe ; for 

 it is possible that Algeria may be the northern- 

 most limit in summer of those birds which have 

 passed the winter many degrees further south 

 than have the migrants from Europe. 



