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saw them flying above the great forests of Invercauld, 

 in Aberdeenshire ; and he imagined that they had bred 

 there, because he saw them as early as the 5th of August. 

 Mr. Selby observes, " Such a conclusion, however, ought 

 scarcely to be inferred from this fact, as a sufficient interval 

 of time had elapsed for these individuals to have emigrated 

 from Norway, or other northern countries to Scotland, after 

 incubation, as they are known to breed as early as May in 

 their native haunts. I have made many enquiries respect- 

 ing these birds, during excursions in Scotland, but cannot 

 learn that the nest has ever been found ; and indeed, 

 from the intelligence obtained from gamekeepers, and 

 those most likely to have made observations connected 

 with Ornithology, it appears that they are very rarely 

 seen, and can only be regarded as occasional visitants." 

 Only one specimen is recorded as having been killed in 

 Ireland, and this was shot in December, 1819, at the Cave- 

 hill, near Belfast. 



Messrs. C. J. and James Paget, in their Sketch of the 

 Natural History of Yarmouth, mention, at page 6, that a 

 flight of these birds was seen on the Denes in November, 

 1822, and the Rev. Richard Lubbock, in his Fauna of 

 Norfolk, refers to a pair that were shot, and which were 

 said to have had a nest, which unfortunately was destroyed. 

 Mr. Rylands, in his Catalogue of Birds found in Lan- 

 cashire, published in the second volume of the Naturalist, 

 includes the Pine Grosbeak as obtained in Hulston fir 

 trees, on the authority of T. K. Glazebrook, Esq. ; Mr. 

 Knox, in his Birds of Sussex, has referred to two ex- 

 amples killed in Ashdown Forest; and a female in my 

 own collection was shot some years ago at Harrow-on- the - 

 Hill. 



The Pine Grosbeak, or Pine Bullfinch as it is frequently 

 called, closely resembles the Common Bullfinch in the form 



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