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ALLEN’S NATURALIST’S LIBRARV. 
gr^rA 6 "En“Sd^d w“r s ? S T’ 0CCUrrin ^ over the 
in the noithem counties and in Ka’st Ut ° f ’Regular occurrence 
of its having bred i th?Ta b f. te ™ ^land. The records 
authentic. The late Dr Saihv klngdom are apparently not 
Shetland a female bird with th^ rdS r.- h if having seen in 
on the oth of Tune rC T ?T£ blrds abIe t0 % well, 
by the author of the excellent"* Manual of ShB^d^ 0 " 
being extraordinary, if a fact “ sceinc , w ‘ ■ sb Blrds as 
England eggs arc' hardly kid' by fherMridie °J 
require a fortnight’s incubation.” Mr O V A, f ay ’ and 
who has written a careful account T- - A -P hn ! however, 
Red-backed Shrike in Great R r ,W 116 distribution of the 
too CO, of,,! oteerre, to "Lo , S W*""* &»>» 
month of “July” was tiro bn bit , m ' S ? ke ’. and that the 
kind is very possible as Savin, L: elldcd - A misprint of this 
death. l/ffidSn" oSsta„°ce oTt^'^ after his 
has been noted, near Belfast, in August ,8 7 8 ° CCUrrence 
“ One iferi? “ «»“ • 
of which the Red- backed Shrik/k a k f the countr y south 
but a boundary-line drawn hte wouThT migrallt 5 
deflected in places. Turning to thl e Iu’ ° f COUrse ’ t0 be 
species rare in Pembrokeshire C out h- west we find the 
Devon. Possibly 45° W. long, mmh't'te fjj South-west 
western boundary, beyond which the bird el d f a 
regular and common visitor, but as in the el t0 be a 
co„r,„ es no very strictly defined mnrehes c“, be preSeS'"’ 
bird in the countries of the Mediterranean "hp 1 -^ 6 f S a breedln S 
the mountainous parts of Greece Asia \r ln ® °, und , on y in 
and thence through Northern Persiffn r^ 01 ? and Palestln e, 
the Altai Mountains. The princS ^ far as 
appears to be Southern Africa and it doilht T ° [ ^ SpeC | eS 
way of the Nile Valley and St Africa t t ™ grates ^ 
It has even been said to breed v i Wlnter T'arters. 
but we think that there is some S^TtlT ^ 
assertion. Mr. F T Taeksnn ' u ' 6 Wltb re S ara t0 this 
J ' Jackson > however, noticed this species 
