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and Northern Asia, and has occasionally occurred at Heligoland 

 on migration. 



As it has been imported into this country as a cage bird 

 the task of discriminating between " escapes " and wild birds 

 is difficult, but one shot by Mr. Craggs Clubley of Kilnsea, 

 in November 1894, is, in all probability, a genuine migrant ; 

 this is rendered more likely from the fact that a second 

 specimen was obtained in the same month and year at Hun- 

 manby, and came into the possession of Mr. Brown of Filey. 



These are the first British specimens, and were both 

 exhibited by Col. Irby, F.Z.S., at the Zoological Society's 

 meeting, November 1895 (P.Z.S. 1895, p. 681 ; and J. 

 Cordeaux, Nat. 1896, p. 4). 



The Hunmanby bird, which is a male, was figured by 

 Lord Lilford (Vol. iv. pi. 34), and is now in the Royal Scottish 

 Museum. The Kilnsea specimen is in the British Museum of 

 Natural History at South Kensington.* 



PINE GROSBEAK. 



Pinicola enucleator (L.). 



Rare accidental visitant from Northern Europe and America. 



The home of this species is among the pine forests near 

 the Arctic circle, but sometimes it extends to the birch 



* Until the present year these were the only recorded instances 

 of this bird's appearance in Britain, but Mr. W. Eagle Clarke informs 

 me of the recent occurrence of Bullfinches in Shetland, which he had 

 no doubt belonged to the large northern form ; a female specimen, 

 obtained on the island of Fetlar on 4th November 1905, was forwarded 

 for his inspection, and proved to be an undoubted example of the 

 race named, the wing measuring 3.67 inches. During the past autumn 

 quite a number of these birds seem to have arrived in Shetland, and 

 one or two visited Fair Isle in November. In the spring of 1905 several 

 Bullfinches appeared in Unst, most probably on their return journey 

 to their northern summer haunts. Strange to say they seem to have 

 escaped detection elsewhere in the British Islands, for none have been 

 recorded in the pages of the serial literature devoted to natural history 

 subjects. ("Ann. Scot Nat. Hist." 1906, pp. 50-51.) 



