REPUTED BRITISH BIRDS. 363 



and escaped. Indeed the plumage of the last suggested that it 

 had been caged, though it was killed on Achill Island. 



Yellow Seed-eater, Scrinus icterus (Bonn, et Vieil.). 



Canary, Serinus canarius (Linn.)- 



Cape Canan", Serinus canicollis (Swain.). Common cage- 

 birds, known to have escaped from time to time. No reliable 

 evidence of their appearance as genuine wild birds. 



American White- winged Crossbill, Loxia IcucopUra Gmelin. 

 Included by Newton : it has been recorded from Greenland and 

 has been met with at sea, flying east. There are several records, 

 a-nd where the identiiication is satisfactor)- there is a possibihty 

 that the bird reached us unaided via Iceland. 



Parrot-Crossbill, Loxia pity opsiitacus Bork. Rejected by the 

 P.O.U. Committee on account of the uncertainty of its specific 

 rank. 



Slate-coloured Tunco. Junco hytmali^ (Linn.). Ireland. 1905. 

 Probably an escape. 



White-throated Sparrow, Zonotrichia albicollis (Gmelin;. 

 At least four records, one being on the Flannen Islands. 

 Impossible to say if the birds had escaped or been wind-borne far 

 from their usual routes, but it is probable that they were helped. 



Ruby-crowned Wren, Rcgi^lus calendula (^Linn.). Scotland, 

 1852. The histon' of the capture of this bird seems satisfactory', 

 and it is an unlikely species to have been brought as a captive 

 from America. There is the remote possibility of westward 

 wandering from Alaska. 



White-rumped Shrike, Lanius excuhitorides Swain. Rejected 

 as erroneously identined. 



Red-eyed \'ireo, Vireosylva oliz'acea (Linn.). Two, Derby, 

 1S59. Whitlock believed that these were escaped or released 

 birds. 



Cedar Waxwing, Ampelis cedrorum (VieiL). Two, Durham, 

 1850. Probably escaped birds, but the species has been taken 

 on board ship in the Atlantic f.ir from the American coast. 



