340 Mr. Joseph I. S. Whitaker on the 



end of November he says hardly a day passed without Cross- 

 bills being observed there. 



Sarthe. — According to M. l'Abbe Lamoureux, many 

 Crossbills were observed in this district on the 8th and 9th 

 of July, a single individual of the species on the 20th of 

 September, and a few on the 14th of October. 



Vendee. — M. Plocq reports having obtained an example of 

 the species near Roche-sur-You, and having observed small 

 flocks on passage in this district. 



Loire-Iriferieure. — A nephew of Dr. Bureau obtained an 

 example out of a small party of the species that had remained 

 in the neighbourhood of Birochere, in this district, between 

 the 8th and 15th of August. 



The ' Revue fraucaise d'Ornithologie } of Paris very 

 sensibly opened an inquiry last autumn regarding the recent 

 Crossbill invasion, and collected several interesting notes, 

 some of which are comprised in the remarks given above. 



In the January (1910) number of that journal, a copy of 

 which has kindly been sent me by M. Louis Denise, M. P. 

 Daguin states that Crossbills had never been so abundant in 

 the Cote-d'Or as they were last autumn, and particularly in 

 the month of November, when the birds were to be observed 

 in large numbers in many localities of this department, and 

 particularly in the Chatillon-sur-Seine district. 



M. Lomont reports Crossbills having been seen, in greater 

 or lesser numbers, at Manonville, Meurthe-et-Moselle, 

 between the 10th of July and the end of September, after 

 which date some were again observed on the 10th of October 

 and on the 15th of November. 



M. Roger Reboussin mentions having seen a pair of Cross- 

 bills at Sarge (Loir-et-Cher) on the 13th of November. 

 Considerable numbers of the species are also reported as 

 having been observed in the neighbourhood of Cette in the 

 south of France. 



Belgium. — Crossbills are reported as having been nume- 

 rous in several parts of this country during the past year, but 

 I have no special information on the subject. The species 



