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broke was quite black, and afterwards changed again to his 
original colour, which was considered an ill omen, as the land- 
lord died the same year.” 
[PINE GROSBEAK, Pinicola enucleator—Although we believe that 
this north European species has no claim to a place on the list 
of Pembrokeshire birds, yet we are obliged to admit it because 
of a piece of ancient history of which it would not do to evince 
our ignorance. In Mr. Harting’s useful ‘ Handbook of British 
Birds,” at p. 113, it is stated that “several” of these birds 
appeared in Pembrokeshire “date not mentioned, Fox, Synops. 
Newcastle Mus., p. 65.” And the following appears as a note in 
Professor Newton’s edition of Yarrell’s ‘British Birds,” vol. i, 
p. 178: “A flock of about a hundred unknown birds came to a 
hempyard in Pembrokeshire in Sept., 1694, as reported by a Mr. 
Roberts to Léhwyd Phil. Trans., xxvil., pp. 464, 466, who sus- 
pected they were ‘ Virginia Nightingales’ (Cavdénalis virginianus), 
but later writers suggested they were Pine Grosbeaks.” They 
may have been anything ; if we might venture a guess, we should 
say “ Common Crossbills.’’] 
CROSSBILL, Zoxia curvirostra—An irregular visitor, at all seasons 
of the year. The absence of apple orchards in Pembrokeshire 
may partly account for the infrequency of the appearance of 
the Common Crossbill in the county. We know of only two 
records of its occurrence. Mr. Tracy met with a single speci- 
men, one sent to him about 1858 from Angle, a village on the 
coast to the south-west of Pembroke, and Mr. Dix states that 
during the autumn of 1868, a year when Crossbills were 
observed at several localities in the West of England, a few 
were seen in the lower part of the county, and that he heard of 
three having been killed near Stackpole Court. 
CORN BUNTING, Zmberiza miliaria.—Resident, but local, and 
never seen far from the coast. Is, perhaps, more plentiful 
immediately around St. David’s than anywhere else in the 
county. We have never met with it more than five miles 
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