28 RESIDENTS AND MIGRANTS. 
TWITE. Linota flavirostris (Linneus). 
A winter visitant, remaining to nest in the north of 
England and Scotland. 
MEALY REDPOLL. Linota linaria (Linneus)*. 
An irregular winter visitant to England and Scot- 
land; unknown in Ireland. 
LESSER REDPOLL. Linota rufescens (Vieillot)*. 
Resident in the north of England, Scotland, and 
Ireland ; a winter visitant to the south. With regard 
to the northern range of this species, see a note by 
Professor Newton, ‘ Zoologist,’ 1870, p. 2223. 
TREE SPARROW. Passer montanus (Linneus). 
A local resident ; migratory in autumn. Mr. Thomp- 
son (Nat. Hist. Ireland, Birds, i. p. 256) calls attention 
to the fact that the 'Tree-Sparrow is included in Tem- 
pleton’s ‘ Catalogue of Irish Vertebrate Animals’ as 
‘‘a doubtful native,” but adds that to his ornithological 
friends and himself it is “ quite unknown.” This was 
written in 1849; since that date Mr. Blake Knox 
(‘ Zoologist,’ 1870, p. 2018) has detected it in Ireland, 
where he says it is known to the bird-catchers, and 
believed by them to be resident. In Scotland it is 
local and rare. 
HOUSE SPARROW. JPasser domesticus (Linneus). 
Resident and generally distributed. 
* With reference to this nomenclature, see ‘ The Ibis,’ 1865, p. 129. 
