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the county of Nortliunibcilancl, in tlic autumn of 1819, by 

 his brother Captain Robert Mitford, of the Royal Navy, who 

 also during an excursion in Switzerland, September 1825, 

 met with a large flock of Nutcrackers in a forest mostly com- 

 posed of pinasters and stone pines. These birds were all 

 busily engaged, feeding upon the seeds contained in the 

 cones. They were not wild, but allowed of a near approach. 



Mr. E. H. Rodd, of Penzance, in an extended communi- 

 cation to myself on the birds of Cornwall, mentions that one 

 was seen on a tree on the banks of Hooe Lake by Thomas 

 Bulted, Esq. of Belle Vue, near Plymouth. 



Dr. Edward Moore of Plymouth, in his published cata- 

 logue of the Birds of Devonshire, besides referring to the 

 example mentioned by Montagu, has recorded one other that 

 was shot in Devonshire in 1829, near Washford Pyne Moor, 

 by Mr. W. Tucker, of Dawlish. 



Rusticus, of Godalming, has lately noticed that one was 

 closely watched by a gentleman in Pepper Harrow Park, the 

 seat of Lord Middleton. 



Mr. Macgillivray, in his History of British Birds, says, 

 " There is a specimen in the Museum of the University of 

 Edinburgh, said to have been shot in Scotland ; another in 

 that of Mr. Arbuthnot, at Peterhead ; while the individual, 

 also killed in Scotland, from which this description was taken, 

 belongs to Mr. Thomas Henderson, Coate's Crescent, Edin- 

 burgh." 



I do not find any notice of the occurrence of this species 

 in L-eland. 



M. Vieillot says this bird appears to prefer mountainous 

 countries that are covered with firs. They are found in 

 Auvergne, Savoy, on the Alps in Switzerland, and in Aus- 

 tria, where our countryman and naturalist Willaghby men- 

 tions having seen them. P. Roux includes the Nutcracker 

 among his Birds of Provence, and M. Savi also in his Birds 



