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Mr. W. D. Crotch has once taken the nest, and caught the hen, in 

 a hole in a thatched roof near Taunton. In Dorset, Mr. H. Groves has 

 found the nest in a tree in a swamp at the mouth of the river Wey. 



The Tree- Sparrow breeds regularly in Gloucester, Hereford, Stafford, 

 Shropshire, where "it is common" (Mr. H. Shaw}. Mr. C. S. 

 Gregson considers it not scarce in South and North Lancashire ; 

 and he tells me that he has taken the nest near Warrington and 

 near Lancaster, and believes that its range extends to Westmoreland 

 and Cumberland. 



Extremely rare in Scotland. Mr. R. Gray has noticed a pair 

 frequenting a farm in North Berwick all the summer ; Mr. J. R. 

 Pencaitland also marks it as nesting occasionally in this county. 

 Mr. J. Murray and Mr. A. Pullen tell me that it breeds occasionally 

 in Perthshire. Mr. T. Edward has seen eggs which were taken in 

 "the higher parts of Aberdeenshire " ; and, in Elginshire, the Rev. 

 George Gordon finds the Tree -Sparrow breeding annually in small 

 numbers in the hedges of the warmer parts of the county, where it 

 appears as a summer visitor. 



PASSER DOMESTICUS (Leach]. House-Sparrow. 



Provinces I. -XVIII. 



Subprovinces 1-38. 



Lat. 50-61. " British " type, or general. 



Throughout Great Britain, extending to the western and northern 

 isles of Scotland. 



FRINGILLA CHLORIS (Temm.}. Green Linnet. 



Provinces I.-XVII. 

 Subprovinces 1-35. 

 Lat. 50-59. " British " type, or general. 



Breeds as far north as Sutherland (Mr. W. Dunbar] and Caithness 

 (Mr. H. Osborne], but not in the Scottish isles. 



COCCOTHRAUSTES VULGARIS (Steph.\ Hawfinch. 



Provinces II. III. IV. V. VIII. X. 



Subprovinces 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, n, 14, 15, 20, 23. 

 Lat. 50-54. " English " type. Not in Ireland. 



Apparently increasing, and reported as now breeding regularly in 

 Wilts, Kent, Surrey, Essex, Middlesex, and Bucks. The nest has also 

 been found in Dorset (Mr. H. Groves], Hants, Sussex, Herts, Berks, 

 Oxford, Suffolk, Norfolk, Warwick, Rutland, Derby ; and at Cusworth 

 near Doncaster (Mr. H. Reid]. 



Mr. T. Edward informs me that he believes a pair bred, a few years 

 ago, near to the town of Banff. 



