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Europe have been thus primarily noticed to show the pro- 

 bability of its occurrence in Great Britain ; and, accord- 

 ingly, it appears that a female was shot within two miles 

 of Belfast in January, 1802. Of this, a notice was sent 

 to the Linnean Society, and it is recorded in the Trans- 

 actions, vol. vii. page 309. Mr. Wm. Thompson, of 

 Belfast, in his History of the Birds of Ireland, vol. i. 

 page 283, mentions that Mr. Templeton's coloured draw- 

 ing of this bird " proves the Irish specimen to have been 

 the L. bifasciata of M. de Selys." Pennant also mentions, 

 in his British Zoology, that he had been told of a second, 

 killed in Scotland. H. E. Strickland, Esq., of Cracombe 

 House, Evesham, mentions, in a letter with which he 

 favoured me, that he possesses a specimen of the White- 

 winged Crossbill, killed near Worcester, in 1836 ; and 

 Mr. Hoy informs me that some time ago Mr. Seaman, of 

 Ipswich, who is well acquainted with birds, being out 

 with his gun, looking for specimens, saw five or six small 

 birds on a tree, which from their peculiar manners attracted 

 his attention ; he fired, and killed one, which proved to 

 be a White-winged Crossbill ; but the more fortunate sur- 

 vivors did not allow him an opportunity of repeating the 

 experiment. 



Since the publication of the former editions of this 

 work, several records of the occurrence of White-winged 

 Crossbills have appeared in the Zoologist. One example 

 is mentioned by Mr. Jerdon as having been taken in Rox- 

 burghshire in the month of March, 1845. Mr. J. Cooper, 

 of Birmingham, had one alive, which was caught in that 

 district. E. H. Rodd, Esq., of Penzance, has recorded 

 one that was killed at Lariggan, in Cornwall; and the 

 Rev. C. A. Bury has mentioned, on the authority of Mr. 

 Butler, that a pair of these birds had been taken in the 

 Isle of Wight. It has been killed also in Surrey and in 



