APPENDIX. 733 



Crossbill (p. 193). 



Waterford must be added to the Irish counties in which this 

 species has bred ; Mr. Ussher having obtained a nest, 

 with four much incubated eggs, for the British Museum, 

 on March 23rd 1SS9. An example of the large-billed race 

 known as the Parrot-Crossbill was shot on Lord Rosse's 

 demesne, Parsonstown, last January (Zool. 1889, p. 181). 



Brandt's Siberian V>v^1l\v.g, Eml>erizacioides. 



In June 1S88 Mr. R. W. Chase of Birmingham purchased a 

 young male of this species, said to have been taken near 

 Flamborough in October 1887 and to have been mounted 

 from the flesh by Mr. Matthew Bailey, who did not know 

 the bird and was quite ignorant of the interest attaching 

 to it. This is set forth by Canon Tristram in 'The 

 Ibis' for July 1889 (p. 293), where an adult male from 

 Krasnoyarsk is figured ; but Mr. Seebohm remarks {hvn. 

 cit. p. 296) that the Flamborough bird approaches rather 

 nearer to the Chinese sub-species Emheriza cioides casta- 

 nciceps than to the typical Siberian form. As a mere de- 

 tail, it may be mentioned that in ' The Naturalist ' for 1889 

 (p. 113) the date of capture is given as November 1886. 



Ortolan Bunting (p. 205). 



From the Migration Report for 1885 (p. 26) it would appear 

 that two Ortolan Buntings frequented the Isle of May, 

 in the Firth of Forth, from April 23rd to May 2nd, 

 when one of them was shot. 



Snow Bunting (p. 215). 



In June 1888 Mr. John Young found a nest of this species, 

 with 5 eggs, in Sutherland. 



Jay (p. 225). 



Mr. Ussher says that in Ireland the stronghold of this species 

 is in the basin of the Suir, the Barrow and the Nore, 

 beyond which its range is not extensive. 



Great Spotted Woodpecker (p. 265). 



I1ie Rev. H. A. Macpherson has recorded an example from 

 Skye, shot in October 1886 (Zool. 1889, p. 269). 



Cuckoo (p. 277). 



Through inadvertence, I omitted to state that Mr. John 

 Hancock saw the nestling cuckoo begin to eject the 

 young of the Hedge-Sparrow when the former had only 

 been hatched about thirty hours (Nat. Hist. Trans. 

 Northumb. & Durham, viii. p. 213). 



