46 THE BIRDS OF DEVONSHIRE. 



WHITE-WINGED CROSSBILL.— Zo^/« Micoptera, Gmel. 



A RARE visitant. A fine red male of this nearctic 

 species was found dead and partly covered with wet 

 sand in a crevice of some loose rocks on the shore at 

 Exmoiith, on September 17th, 1845, by Mr. E B. 

 Fitton, who exhibited it at a meeting of the Zoological 

 Society on the 23rd of the same month, (P.Z.S. 

 1845. p. 91). Mr. Yarrell examined the bird in the 

 flesh, and added a figure of it to his "British Birds.'' 



Suhfamihj Embeeizin.53. 

 CORN ^\J^TmQ.—Eml)eriza miUaria, liinn. 



A COMMON resident, varying in local abmidance from 

 year to year, and rather rare near Tavistock, but 

 plentiful on the north coast as a rule ; very abundant 

 in summer and winter alike, in my own district. 

 The Editor met with astonishing numbers at Berry 

 Head, in September 1880, but it is possible that 

 these may have been resting on migration. In 

 winter I have seen these Buntings feeding with 

 Sparrows and Yellow Buntings in the neighbourhood 

 of houses. Prebendary Bassett has observed the 

 species on Exmoor, though he considers it rare at 

 Dulverton. 



YELLOW BUNTING.— ^m&fm« citrinella, Linn. 



An abundant resident, uniformly distributed in all 

 parts of Devon, except where the moorland limits 

 its breeding grounds. 



