Xvi INTRODUCTION. 
New Forest ; and there was a colony for many years at Stand- 
lake, in Oxfordshire. Of twenty nests taken there, one 
was in a faggot-stack, one in a hole of a decayed elm, two in 
holes of pollard ash, four in holes of pollard willow, and 
twelve in holes in decayed apple-trees in orchards. On the 
subject of Linnets (p. 28) the reader may be referred to Dr. 
E. Coues’s Monograph of the genus published in the ‘ Proc. 
Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad.’ 1861, p. 373—with some additional 
remarks, 1863, p. 40. The change of plumage which takes 
place in the Crossbills (p. 29) and Pine Grosbeak (p. 113) is 
very remarkable. Mr. Wheelwright’s observations on the 
subject (‘ Zoologist,’ 1862, p. 8001) are well worth reading. 
No instance is on record of the nesting of the Rose-coloured 
Pastor (p. 30) m Great Britain; but the birds have been 
seen and shot several times in the middle of summer. Dr. 
Moore mentions one which was shot in Devon in June, and 
a young one without a crest in October. A pair were shot 
in July at Rosemount, near Glasgow, where they had been 
observed for some days previously. 
It is stated (p. 32) that the Green Woodpecker is unknown 
in Ireland. This is very near the truth; but a single in- 
stance of its occurrence at Granard, co. Longford, is men- 
tioned by Thompson in the Appendix to the third volume of 
his Nat. Hist. Ireland, p. 441. In the autumn of 1861 the 
Greater Spotted Woodpecker (p. 32) was observed to be very 
numerous in Orkney and Shetland (ef. Saxby, ‘ Zoologist,’ 
1862, p. 7932). 
The Lesser Spotted Woodpecker (p. 32), although almost 
unknown in Ireland, has yet occurred oftener, so far as is 
known, than the Green Woodpecker. Glennon, of Dublin, 
has preserved six or seven, at various times, sent to him from 
different parts of Ireland. 
Although most of the small birds which periodically visit 
