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ward, in the wooded districts, it is considered to 
be generally and not uncommonly distributed. 
Mr Selby mentions having traced it as far as 
Morpeth, in Northumberland, where a few are 
seen every year. Mr Greenhow includes it in 
a list of birds of the parish of Tynemouth, 
same county.* In Scotland it becomes still less 
frequent ; we have heard of very few examples, 
and one only has come under our own notice, 
killed on the banks of the Solway, early in 
spring, and now in our collection ; it drew atten- 
tion by its peculiar, and there unknown cries. 
It is not mentioned by Mr Thompson in the 
Irish list. On the Continent, it is said by 
Temminck to be found in central Europe, seldom 
ranging more to the northward than Sweden. 
Of its more extended range we have fewer indi- 
cations ; it occurs in Temminck’s list of Japanese 
birds identical with those of Europe, and we 
have received it in a collection of birds from the 
vicinity of Canton. Montague mentions it as 
known in Africa. 
We can give no description of the habits of 
this bird from observation. All authors agree 
in the food being insectivorous, and consisting 
in a great measure upon ants, which has obtained 
for it the common appellation of “ Emmet Hun- 
ter.” These it takes with the tongue, by darting 
out and touching the prey, which adheres to the 
glutinous secretion with which it is abundantly 
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