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The first was caught near Southwick in April, 
1864, and passed into Mr. Monk’s collection, he at 
first believing it to be a Citril Finch, Another was 
obtained by him which was also got near Southwick 
1869. Mr. Bond mentions the first of these in the 
Zoologist, 1870, pp. 1984 and 2022. 
The third was procured in 1905 by Mr W. C. 
Larmer, of Hove. It was presented to the Museum 
by Mr. F. A. Crawford, who had kept it meanwhile 
in a cage for some three weeks. 
Great doubt has been expressed whether these 
birds can have migrated of their own accord from 
their West African habitat to these islands. 
PINE GROSBEAK. 
A small flock of these rare visitors from northern 
pine forests visited West Kent and East Sussex in the 
autumn of 1905, when several of them were shot, 
including our two birds. The yellow bird is a female, 
which was shot by a man named Olliver at Hawkhurst 
in Kent, October 25th, 1905. He succeeded in 
getting two others, both of them also yellow birds. 
A few days later, on October 30th, Carley, a keeper 
at Ashburnham Park, killed three more, two being 
rosy males and the other a yellow female, just 
outside the Park at Netherfield. One of these males 
is here, given by Mr. D Hack in 1908. 
The female, which was exhibited at the British 
Ornithologists Club and is recorded in their Bulletin 
(Vol. XIV. p. 47), was given by Mr. J. Hardley Hall. 
Late in August, 1906, I was sitting reading 
Dicey's Law and Public Opinion in England in 
Mrs. Satterthwaite’s garden at Skelwith, near Win- 
dermere, under the high hedge which separates the 
garden from the lane in front. Attracted by a 
strong note I looked up and saw a bird flying down 
from the trees behind the house. It settled on a 
garden post not five yards from me but quickly saw 
me and flew off. It was a Pine Grosbeak, in a 
