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Damara Land in some abundance. And Anders- 

 son himself states ^ that the bird is common in 

 Damara and Great Namaqua Land, and is found 

 there throughout the year. Dr. Hartlaub cites 

 it on M. Verreaux's authority as from the Cape, 

 and Swainson also alludes to it as from South 

 Africa. Since the publication of the work above 

 quoted, Mr. Layard has been enabled to add 

 that his son procured this bird at Grootevaders- 

 bosch, near Swellendam. From Lapland, then, 

 to the Cape of Good Hope, and from Portugal 

 to Palestine is a pretty extensive range for so 

 small and weak a bird as our Common Fly- 

 catcher. I should not be surprised to hear 

 that it is found even still further to the east- 

 ward, for so many of our summer migratory 

 birds spend their winter in India and China, and 

 after all the greater part of their journey would 

 be by overland route, which admits of their 

 travelling by stages, to rest and feed by the 

 way. 



1 " Notes on the Birds of Damara Land," by the late C. 

 J Andersson; arranged and edited by J. H. Gumey, 1872, 

 p. 129. 



