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who, being well acquainted with British birds, at 

 once recognized the species. In February, 1848, 

 two were killed at the same time in Ashdown 

 Forest. One of them, which I saw, was an adult 

 male. 



Common Crossbill, Loxia curvirostra. An 

 accidental visitor. In the autumn of 1835 great 

 numbers of these birds were observed in most of 

 the pine woods and larch plantations of Sussex. 

 They were abundant during that year at Salt 

 Hill, near Chichester, and in the neighbourhood 

 of Midhurst and Parham. Like the hawfinch, the 

 crossbill is very uncertain and irregular in its ap- 

 pearance. 



Family Sturnid^e. 



Common Starling, Sturnus vulgaris. Abun- 

 dant. 



Rose-coloured Pastor, Pastor roseus. A very 

 rare straggler. I understand that it has been shot 

 once in the eastern division of the count}^, but 

 cannot ascertain the precise locality. I know of 

 two instances of its occurrence in West Sussex. 

 The first was at Mundham, near Chicliester, in 

 1836. The second at Selsey in 1838. The 

 stomach of the latter specimen contained a great 

 quantity of the larvae of coleopterous insects. 



