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TWO-BARRED CROSSBILL. 



Loxia bifasciata (Brehm). 

 Accidental visitant from Northern Europe, of very rare occurrence. 



This species is a dweller in the forest region of north 

 Russia, Siberia, Kamchatka, and on to the Pacific, in winter 

 migrating to Sweden, Germany, and the west of Europe. 



There are but few instances on record of its occurrence 

 in the county, the first being from the neighbourhood of 

 Knaresborough, where one was shot at Plompton in 1826. 

 This specimen was formerly in the collection of the late 

 J. C. Garth of Knaresborough, and, at the dispersal of his 

 effects in December 1904, it was purchased by Mr. Riley 

 Fortune of Harrogate. 



On 27th December 1845, at Cowick near Snaith, in Lord 

 Downe's Park, a flock was seen from which two males and 

 two females were procured, and passed into the possession of 

 Hugh Reid of Doncaster. 



At Easington near Spurn, an immature example was 

 obtained on I2th August 1889, by the Rev. H. H. Slater. 

 (Nat. 1889, p. 314 ; Lord Clifton, Field, 7th December 1889 > 

 Zool. 1891, p. 363.*) 



At Flamborough a male, which I have seen in the collection 

 of Mr. Forster of Bridlington, was obtained about 1898. 



CORN BUNTING. 



Emberiza miliaria (Z.). 



Resident ; common, but rather locally distributed. A considerable 

 influx of migrants in autumn. 



The first allusion to this species as a Yorkshire bird is 

 in a communication from the learned Dr. Martin Lister of 



* It was reported to have occurred about the same time in some 

 numbers on Heligoland, and others were recorded in different parts 

 of the British Islands. 



