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occurrence of certain birds): Turdus Atrigularis, and 
Emberiza Pusilla, should have got themselves enrolled 
by an almost universal consensus: as to Emberiza Rustica 
it is even recorded by Professor Newton as being known 
to have escaped from its cagein April, 1870, in England. 
‘Atrigularis’ and ‘Pusilla’ are admitted to the British 
Ornithologists Union List, published in 1883, fom only one 
occurrence: whilst the cumulative evidence for the ad- 
mission of the Great Black Woodpecker is bowled over 
by our Naturalists, asa man might bowl down thirty 
nine-pins, one after the other. 
Still more surprising is it that certain birds should 
have been mentioned, even for rejection, upon what 
seems an authoritative list of our birds: asthe Nonpareil 
Finch (Cyanospiza Ciris), which has been brought over 
almost in flocks from America; and of which probably 
many have escaped from the dealers’ shops; the only 
reason for its record may be its early occurrence in the 
Century (1802), when perhaps it may not have been so 
common an introduction as it is now. The Mocking 
Bird also is printed only to be justly dismissed in the 
brief words “‘ Specimens imported in cages occasionally 
escape, but there ts no authentic instance of this LNorth 
American Bird having occurred wild in Europe.” 
African Finches are imported in thousands, yet the 
escape of one, in 1853, Crithagra Chrysopyga has been 
allowed to disfigure this List by its notice and dismissal, 
the mention of Sterna Bergii also, whose record was a 
joke, which was also a fraud, serves no good purpose. 
Sabine’s Snipe is treated as a melanism of that bird, 
under the heading “Common Snipe,” and it is a pity 
that the ‘Bimaculated Teal’ has not been referred in like 
manner, as a hybrid, to the paragraph upon the ‘Teal.’ 
The occurrences of the the Alpine Chough, in 1881 
and 1882, are not noticed at all. 
