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Captain Feilden says that it is common on the Fasroes, where it breeds everywhere in suitable 

 localities. In Scandinavia it is very generally distributed during the breeding-season, and is met 

 with up into Lapland. Mr. Robert Collett informs me that in Norway it occurs probably on 

 every island along the entire line of coast, and was seen at Stappen, close to the North Cape, in 

 June 1872. On the south coast of Norway some few individuals remain regularly over winter. 

 Nilsson states that it is common on the coasts of Sweden, from the extreme south up to the north 

 of the Gulf of Bothnia, and not unfrequently visits the lakes far from the sea. He has seen it 

 during the summer on the shores of the Wenern and Wettern ; and it is occasionally seen on the 

 Ringsjo, in Skane. It arrives in Southern Sweden in March, and leaves in September, some few 

 remaining till early in October. In Finland it is common all along the coast. I have seen it 

 almost everywhere from Tornea down to Wiborg, and found numbers breeding in Northern 

 Finland. According to Dr. Palmen it is found also sparingly in the interior, but is not known to 

 breed there. It has been observed in Jockas, at Haminanlaks, near Kuopio, and in Pudasjarvi. 

 One was shot near Muonioniska in 1866 ; it has several times occurred during the summer in 

 Enare, and in Utsjoki in August. It arrives in Southern Finland late in April, and leaves in 

 September. In Russia it is common on the shores of the White Sea and the coasts of the 

 Archangel Government. Messrs. Seebohm and Harvie-Brown state (Ibis, 1876, p. 290) that 

 they first saw the present species at Ust Zylma on the 26th May, and obtained eggs on the 8th 

 June. Afterwards they met with them in small numbers up to about twenty miles within the 

 Arctic circle ; but they did not find them on the islands of the delta, or on the shores of the 

 mainland north of that point. Mr. Sabanaeff informs me that it breeds not unfrequently in the 

 Governments of Jaroslaf, Tver, and Kostroma, and is found but rarely during summer in the 

 Smolensk Government. In Poland it is, Mr. Taczanowski states, of very rare occurrence ; and it is 

 by no means a common bird in North Germany or in the Baltic provinces. Mr. H. Schalow says 

 (J. f. O. 1876, p. 23) that it is very rare on passage in Mark Brandenburg. It is said to have 

 been observed in Oderbruch ; a specimen was obtained at Neustadt/Esw ; and there is one in the 

 agricultural museum from the Nauener district. In the autumn of 1875 Dr. Bolle watched a 

 small flock during several days on the Tegeler lake. Mr. Collin says that it usually arrives in 

 Denmark late in March or early in April, occasionally somewhat earlier, and leaves in September, 

 but a few remain over winter on the shores of Holstein. It breeds on most of the small islands, 

 especially those on the west coast of Schleswig, and to some extent on the coasts of Denmark. 

 On Amrom, he adds, the natives put Hen's eggs in its nest, and it hatches them out. On the 

 south coasts of the North Sea it is resident. According to Professor Schlegel it breeds on the 

 coast of Holland, usually arriving there in April and leaving in September, but it also winters there 

 in larger or smaller numbers. In Belgium it is common, and is found numerously on the coasts 

 of Flanders in the winter and spring, occurring at times along the Meuse and some distance up 

 the Rhine. On the north and west coasts of France it is abundant, and is found in moderate 

 numbers in the Lower Camargue, where it breeds on the same islands as the Terns and Avocets. 

 M. Adrien Lacroix states that it is found on passage, and is to some extent resident, on the coasts 

 of Aude and Herault, and is found in spring and autumn, and perhaps, to a small extent, in the 

 summer, in the Pyrenees Orientales. In Portugal it is common ; and Mr. Howard Saunders 

 states (Ibis, 1871, p. 387) that it is not unfrequently found on the coast of Spain in winter; but 



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