A RARE VISITANTS. 
Two, Ashdown Forest, Sussex, Feb. 1848: Knox, , Orn. 
Rambles in Sussex, p. 212. 
One near Petworth, Sussex: Knox, J. ¢. 
One, Braemar, August 1850: Macgillivray, Nat. Hist. Dee- 
side, p. 403. 
One, Somersetshire: Baker, Somerset Archzol. Proc. 1851, 
p. 144. 
One, Taunton: Prideaux, Zoologist, 1862, p. 3474. 
One seen at Dunkeld: Col. Drummond Hay, hitherto unre- 
corded. 
Fam. LOXIID &. 
PARROT CROSSBILL. Loaia pityopsittacus, Bechstein. 
Hab. Northern Europe and Western Siberia. 
One, Shropshire : Pennant, Brit. Zool. 
Two, Scotland: Yarrell, Hist. Brit. Birds, ii. p. 24. 
Two, Ross-shire, 1833: Gray, Birds of West of Scotland, 
p. 154. 
Nine, Dartmoor, 1838: Rowe, List of Birds of Devon, p. 27. 
Several, Edwinstowe, Notts, 1849: Sterland, Birds of Sher- 
wood Forest, p. 126. 
Two, Caithness: Osborne, Proc. Roy. Phys. Soc. Edinb. 
vol. i. p. 341. 
One, Harrow, Middlesex, Jan. 1850: Newman, Zoologist, 
1850, p. 2770; Harting, Birds of Middlesex, p. 92. 
One, Riddlesworth Hall, Norfolk: Stevenson, Birds of Nor- 
folk, vol. 1. p. 239. 
One, Saxham, Suffolk*, Nov. 1850: Newton, Zoologist, 
1851, p. 3145. 
* Tn the ‘ Zoologist ’ for 1863, p. 8845, and in Gould’s ‘ Birds of 
Great Britain,’ mention is made of several Parrot Crossbills, killed at 
Brandon, Suffolk, in October 1863 and March 1864; but these sub- 
sequently proved to be only large varieties of the Common Crossbill 
(cf. Stevenson, ‘ Birds of Norfolk,’ vol. 1. pp. 239, 240). 
