CROSSBILLS 383 



TWO-BARRED CROSSBILL. Loxia hifasciata, Brehm. 

 Length, 6 in. ; bill, 07 in. ; wing, 3-75 in. ; tarsus, 

 0-7 in. 



Hah. Northern Europe and Asia. 



One near Belfast, Jan. 11, 1802 : Templeton, Trans. Linn. 

 Soc, vol vii. p. 309; Thompson, "Nat. Hist. Irel. 

 (Birds)," vol. i. p. 283. 



Five or six seen, one shot, near Ipswich : Yarrell, fide Hoy. 



One, Birmingham : Yarrell, op. cit. 



One, Lariggan, Cornwall, 1843 : Rodd, Zool, 1843, p. 142. 



Two, Isle of Wight, 1844: Bury, Zool., 1844, p. 643; A. G. 

 More in Venable's " Guide to Isle of Wight," p. 430. 



One, Unsted Wood, Surrey : Salmon, " Letters of Rus- 

 ticus." In the collection of Mr. H. F. Nicholson, of 

 Waverley Abbey, Surrey. 



One, Godalming, Surrey, from a flock of Common Cross- 

 bills. In the collection of W. Borrer. 



One, Bury St. Edmunds, May 1846 ; Hunter, Zool., 1846, 

 p. 1498 ; Stevenson, " Birds of Norfolk," vol. i. p. 243. 



One, Mickleover, near Derby, Nov. 1845 : Bell, Zool., 1846, 

 p. 1247 ; Whitlock, "Birds of Derbyshire," p. 94. 



Nine, Brampton, near Carlisle, autumn 1845 : Cooper, Zool., 

 1846, p. 1551; Hodgkinson, Zool., 1847, p. 1G38. Two 

 of these are figured by Yarrell. 



One shot by Doubleday at Epping : Yarrell, op. cit. 



Four or five seen, one shot, near Thetford, May 10, 1846: 

 Hunter, Zool., 1846, p. 1498 ; Stevenson, op. cit, p. 242. 



Three from a flock, Drinkston, near Bury, Suftblk, May 

 1846 : Bree, Zool., p. 1498, and 1849, p. 2419. Speci- 

 mens in collections of Bree, Gurney, and Stevenson. 



One near Taunton, 1851 : Prideaux, Zool, 1852, p. 3474. 



One, CO. Antrim, 1867 : Blake Knox, Zool, 1868, p. 1376. 



One flew on board a vessel in the North Sea, Oct. 1870 : 

 Stevenson, Trans. Norf. Nat. Soc, 1873, p. 117. 



One near Easington, Yorkshire, Aug, 12, 1889 : Slater, 

 Nat, 1889, p. 314. 



