52 THE BIRDS OF CUMBERLAND. 



and at once received the attention of Mr. Proucl, 

 who was already so well acquainted with the com- 

 mon Crossbill. 



A marginal, pencilled note, in the late Mr. 

 Taylor's copy of Jardine's Birds of Great Britain, 

 brought to light by Mr. Cairns, runs thus: — "Nov. 

 1st, 1845. I have shot the White-winged Crossbill." 

 The natural inference would be, that the female 

 bird preserved in the late Mr. Taylor's collection 

 fell to that gentleman's gun, but Mr. Leslie is under 

 the impression that the specimen in question was 

 presented to Mr. Taylor. At all events, the date 

 of November 1st renders it tolerably certain that 

 the birds had arrived during the previous few days, 

 i.e. in October. 



Mr. R. Leslie, who obtained most of the 

 specimens, informs us that the first bird procured 

 was shot by a son of the late Mr. Proud on a 

 Sunday afternoon. Nine or ten others were shot 

 by Mr. Leslie, two or three birds being too hard 

 hit for preservation. Mr. J. B. Hodgkinson states 

 (ZooL, 1847, p. 1638), that one of the birds pre- 

 served was an immature male, and this we have 

 failed to trace. Two females were sent to Mr. 

 T. C. Heysham [Cooper, ZooL, 1846, p. 1551), and 

 one of these passed through the collections of 

 Mr. H. Doubleday and Mr. T. Dix into that of 

 Mr. H. Stevenson (ZooL, 1873, p. 3778). Another 

 female was sent to Mr. John Hancock (Cat. B. of 

 N. & D., p. 50), and another, as stated above, exists 

 in the Taylor collection. Another female and a 

 fine crimson male are preserved in the Proud col- 



