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of France, in Italy, Greece, in that part of Switzerland 
which borders on Italy, and more rarely in the south 
and south-west of Germany. It is also found in 
Central Germany, in the north of France, and in 
Holland; but Naumann says it is not found in the 
north of Germany. According to Faber, it has been 
found and killed between 66° and 6T° of north lati- 
tude. It has also been found in the Hertz Mountains, 
and, according to Bechstein, it is often seen in 
Thuringia. Dr. Leith Adams informs me that it is an 
autumn visitor at Malta, is common in Sicily, and 
very common at Smyrna. Xaumann remarks as worthy 
of notice that the Serin Finch is not equally plentiful 
in the same country, and Schinz writes to him that 
he has never procured it in the Canton of Zurich, 
though they are common a four hours’ journey out of 
it. They are said to be plentiful in the neighbourhood 
of Heidelberg and Offenbach, but in the country be- 
tv'een very rare. Count Miihle says it is very common 
in Greece, in company with Finches and Linnets, 
and that its colours are in that country very bright. 
Captain Loche includes it among the birds of Algeria; 
and Mr. Salvin (“Ibis,” vol. i, p. 313,) says that it is 
common about the olive-groves of Sousa, in the neigh- 
bourhood of Turin, but rare in the more elevated 
and mountainous parts of the Eastern Atlas. 
A special interest attaches to this bird in consequence 
of its having been recently captured in England, but 
as it has not hitherto been figured as a British bird, 
it comes into my list. The account of this capture 
will be found related by Mr. Bond, in the “Zoologist” 
for 1860, p. 7105. One specimen was said to have 
been caught in a clap-net on the 20th. of June, 1859, 
near Brighton; and a second near London, in October, 
