Birds. 



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It seems not a little extraordinary, and is one of those facts in 

 nature which we can only record without attempting to reason on it, 

 that a bird, confined on the continent to Italy, the south of France, 

 and to a small portion of Switzerland, should, after passing over Ger- 

 many, central and northern France, and the South of Britain, reappear 



Orpheus Warbler. 



i. Male. 



b. Female. 



in Yorkshire. Anomalies of this kind do, however, frequently turn up, 

 as though to puzzle us. Such was the occurrence of the hawk owl, 

 recorded in a recent number, on the most unquestionable authority ; 

 and such have been dozens of records which would never have been 



