196 THE BIRDS OF YORKSHIRE. 



woods as far as yo° N. lat. Eastward it is plentiful in North 

 Russia, Siberia to Kamchatka, and southward to Lake 

 Baikal. In America it is found in the Arctic and sub-Arctic 

 forests, migrating in winter to California, Colorado, and the 

 Eastern States. 



The Local Museum at Whitby contains a specimen of 

 this rare Arctic visitor, shot from a flock at Littlebeck, four 

 miles distant from Whitby, in the winter of (about) 1861, 

 by G. Kitching, who at the same time procured four others ; 

 these were made into skins, but have been lost sight of. 



At the request of Mr. J. H. Gurney, Messrs, Stephenson 

 and Wilson of Whitby compared the Whitby Museum example 

 with a Swedish skin sent by Mr. Gurney, and, writing on 13th 

 February 1890, Mr. Stephenson pronounced the two to be 

 the same species, though differing materially in colour ; 

 the Whitby specimen being of a dullish carmine red colour 

 on the head, throat, breast, and back near the tail where the 

 Swedish bird is tinged with darkish yellow, the lower mandible 

 is lighter in colour than the upper, with greyish feathers at 

 the base and cheeks, which are afterwards blended or mixed 

 with carmine on the neck. The beak, which has not the 

 least tendency to cross, and the legs are the same as the 

 Swedish specimen. The secondary, etc., wing feathers 

 edged with dirtyish coloured white, producing a barred 

 appearance on the wings. Length, if stretched out, would 

 be 7|in. to 7^'m. He also observed that the red colour on 

 the back near the tail of the Whitby specimen is slightly 

 tinged with indistinct yellow towards the flanks, and that 

 there are no traces of its being in confinement. 



Two other Yorkshire examples are mentioned in the 

 sale catalogue of Mr. Sealey of Cambridge, thus : — " Lot 59, 

 Pine Grosbeaks, three in a case, one shot at Doncaster and 

 the other at Sheffield." See J. H. Gurney, Zool. i8yy, p. 242, 

 and 1890, p. 126, as to the authenticity of British records 

 of this bird. 



