470 Pine Gi^osbeak and Bohemian Chatterer. 



Graves says that about Christmas, 1803, a number were shot in 

 the neighbourhood of Camberwell, from one of which, being but 

 slightly wounded, his figure was taken. In ' Loudon's Magazine' 

 it is stated that a fine specimen was shot near Coventry in De- 

 cember, 1830, where it appeared to associate with starlings, and 

 that during the same month of the same year six were killed in 

 the vicinity of Ipswich. The late Mr. W. Thompson records 

 various instances of the occurrence of this bird in Ireland. In the 

 British Islands it more frequently occurs in the north than the 

 south, and Mr. Yarrell states that " the winters of 1787, 1'788, 

 1789, 1790, 1791, 1803, 1810, 1820, 1822, 1828, 1830, 1831, 

 1834, and 1835, are particularly recorded as having afforded op- 

 portunities of obtaining specimens in some one or other of various 

 northern localities." 



Although called the Bohemian Wax-Wing, it is not more com- 

 mon in Bohemia than England. In the central and southern parts 

 of the European continent it is only an occasional visitor. 



In northern Russia and the extreme north of Norway, accord- 

 ing to C. L. Bonaparte, they are seen in great numbers every 

 winter, being observed there earlier than in temperate countries. 

 In northern Asia and Eastern Europe their migrations are tolera- 

 bly regular. Very numerous flocks pass through Scania in No- 

 vember, and are again seen on their return in the spring. 

 ' But the species is not confined to Europe and Asia. " By a 

 singular coincidence," says the Prince of Canino, " whilst we were 

 proclaiming this species as American, it was received by Tem- 

 minck from Japan^ together with a new species, the third known 

 of the genus." He says that his best specimen was shot on the 

 20th of March, 1825, on the Athabasca River, near the Rocky 

 Mountains ; and observes that the species appears to be spread 

 widely, as he had been credibly informed by hunters that " cedar- 

 birds of a large kind" had been shot a little beyond the Missis- 

 sippi ; adding that he is at a l(;ss to conceive why it should never 

 have been observed on this side of the last-mentioned river. Mr. 

 Drummond in the spring of 1826 saw it near the sources of the 

 Athabasca, and Sir John Richardson observed it in the same 

 season at Great Bear Lake in lat. 65o, where a male, of which 

 he gives a description, was shot on the 24th of May of that year. 

 He also says that he observed a large flock of at least three or 

 four hundred on the banks of the Saskatchewan, at Carlton 

 House, early in May, 1827. They alighted in a grove of poplars, 

 settling all on one or two trees, and making a loud twittering noise. 



