AY Try r 1 
NUTCRACKER. 
Nucifrayga vearyceutactes, SELBY. JENYNS. 
Caryocutactes nucifraga, FLEMING. 
Corvus curyocatactes, PENNANT. MONTAGU. 
Nucifraga. Nuzx, (plural nuces,)—A nut. Frango—To_ break. 
Caryocatactes, Kurion—A nut. Katasse, (the same as 
kutagnum: and atugnuo,)—To break in pieces. 
Tue Nuteracker is dispersed throughout Europe, Asia, and 
America. The mountain forests of Switzerland are its strong- 
hold: it is found also in Austria, France, Italy, Denmark, 
Sweden, Russia, Siberia, and Kamtschatka; the north of Asia, 
and North America. 
In this country it is of rare occurrence. On October 5th., 
1758, one was killed near Mostyn, in Flintshire; another was 
ede killed in Kent. One was seen near Bridgewater, 
in the autumn of 1805; in August, 1808, one was ‘shot m 
North Devon; another was seen on a tree on the banks of 
Hooe Lake; another was shot in the same county, in 1829, 
near Washford Pyne Moor, and another in December of the 
same year, in the adjoining county of Cornwall. A specimen 
was seen in Netherwitton wood, Northumberland, in the 
autumn of i819, by Captam (now Rear- Adn niral) Robert 
Mitford, R.N. In Surrey, one was seen in Pepper Harrow 
Park, the seat of Lord Middleton; in Norfolk, one was shot 
at Rollesby, near Yarmouth, on the 80th. of October, 1843. 
In Sussex, one at Littlington, near Alfriston, on the 26th. 
of September, 1833. 
In Scotland tiree have occurred. In Ireland, Mr. Thompson 
relates that one was said to have been met with at Silver- 
mines, in the county of Tipperary, but that there was no 
authentication of the aecount. 
Mountainons countries, covered with fir woods, are the 
natural resort of this species. 
