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quently informed him this was one of two specimens received by him from Heligoland about 

 1836. Brandt's statements are, however, very unreliable, as he informed Gould that the two 

 specimens in question were obtained near Hamburg. 



Harporhynclms rufns (Linn.) is said by Mr. Gatke to have been obtained by a fowler on 

 Heligoland in the late autumn of 1836, but he was unable to trace and procure the specimen to 

 obtain confirmation of this statement. 



Galeoscoptes carolinensis (Linn.). — This, which, like the preceding, is a common North- 

 American species, has once occurred on Heligoland — a specimen in the Gatke collection having 

 been shot on the 28th October, 1840, by Oelrich Aeuckens; and, so far as I can ascertain, there 

 is no other instance of its having been met with in Europe. 



Cinclus pallasi, Temm., is included in Prof. Blasius's ' List of the Birds of Europe ' on the 

 authority of Mr. Gatke, who says that one was seen there, but not obtained, in 1847. Gould 

 figures it (B. of Eur. ii. pi. lxxxv.), and says, on the authority of Temminck, that it occurs in the 

 Crimea, but this is very doubtful. 



Regulus calendula (Linn.), which is a common species in North America, is recorded (P. Z. S. 

 1858, p. 290) as having been shot in the summer of 1852 on the banks of Loch Lomond by 

 Dr. Dewar, and was seen and identified by Mr. Bobt. Gray, this record being, so far as I can 

 ascertain, the only one of the occurrence of this species in Europe. 



Pliylloscopus coronatus (Temm.). — Mr. Gatke records (Vogelw. Helgol. p. 307) the occur- 

 rence of one on Heligoland on the 4th October, 1843, which passed into the hands of a dealer in 

 Hamburg and has been lost sight of. 



Dendrceca virens (Lath.). — A single example, an old male, was shot on Heligoland on the 

 19th November, 1858, by a boy with a blowpipe, as recorded by Mr. Gatke (Vogelw. Helgol. 

 p. 326). 



Pants minor, Schlegel, is included by Prof. Blasius (List of B. of Eur. p. 8) on the authority 

 of C. L. Brehm, who (Vogelf. p. 241) mentions it in a footnote, but does not say that it is found 

 in Europe. 



Lojrfwjphanes licolor (Linn.) is included by Brehm (Vogelf. p. 243), who says that it strays 

 from North America to Europe, but I cannot find any trustworthy record of its occurrence here. 

 Gould figures it (B. of Eur. iii. pi. clii.), and says that he has seen specimens killed in Russia ; 

 but this is evidently an eiror. 



Lanius ludovicianus, L., is stated by some ornithologists to have occurred in Great Britain 

 (cf. Harting, Handb. Brit. Birds, p. 98), but there appears to be no proof that this American 

 Shrike has ever really been obtained in Europe. 



Vireo olivaceus (Linn.). — Two specimens are recorded (Mosley, Nat. Hist. Tutbury, p. 385, 

 pi. vi.) as having been caught near Derby in May 1859, but there is some doubt on the subject 

 of this occurrence. 



