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distributed in Britain. Mr. Dunbar describes it as breeding regularly 

 in Sutherland and Caithness; and Mr. Danford marks it as nesting 

 every year in Ross-shire. 



LoxiA CURVIROSTRA (Linn.}. Common Crossbill. 



Provinces I.-V. VIII. X. XI.-XV. XVII. 



Subprovinces 2, 3, 5-8, u, 13, 20, 22, 25, 26, 28, 29, 30, 31, 34, 35. 



Lat. 50-59. " Scottish " type, or Northern. 



The Crossbill appears to be an increasing species in Scotland, and r 

 from having been more frequently found breeding in the northern 

 counties, seems to belong rather to the " Scottish " than the " British " 

 type, though the nest has occurred in scattered localities throughout 

 Great Britain. 



Commencing from the south, the nest has been found in the 

 following counties: Devon (Zoologist, p. 39), Somerset (Mr. W. D. 

 Crotch], Hants (Zoologist, p. 189), Sussex (Mr. ' W. Borrer}, Kent 

 (Mr. G. Jell}, Surrey (Hewitson), Essex (Mr. H. Doubleday}, Herts 

 (Mr. F. Bond], Norfolk (Sheppard and Whitear}, Gloucester (Hewit- 

 son], Leicester (Harley}, East York (Hewitson and Mr. A. S. Bell], 

 West York (Mr. H. Reid], Durham and Northumberland (Mr. J. 

 Hancock and Rev. H. B. Tristram}, Cumberland (Mr. T. Hope], 

 Dumfries (Mr. W. G. Gibson], Selkirk and Roxburgh (Rev. T. B. Bell}, 

 Linlithgow (Rev. J. Duns and Mr. T. D. Weir], Perth (Mr. A. 

 Pullen}, Banff (Mr. T. Edward), Elgin (Rev. G. Gordon} ; and the 

 bird is considered to breed regularly in Aberdeen, Inverness, Ross, 

 and probably Sutherland. 



STURNUS VULGARIS (Linn.}. Starling. 



Provinces I .-XVIII. 



Subprovinces 1-38. 



Lat. 5(T- 61. ' ' British " type, or general. 



Throughout the mainland and isles, but is much more numerous in 

 some districts than in others, and it has been observed to increase very 

 rapidly in some counties where it formerly was hardly known. Sir W. 

 Jardine marks the Starling as having bred regularly " of late years 

 only " in Dumfriesshire ; and Mr. Archibald Hepburn describes it as 

 "a colonist" in Haddingtonshire. 



CORACIA GRACULA (G. R. Gray}. Chough. 



Provinces I. II. [III.] VI. VII. XII. XIII. XIV. XVI. XVII. XVIII. 

 Subprovinces 1, 2, (3), 4, 5, (6), (7), 16, 17, 18, 25, 26, 27, 28, 32, 33, 34, 



35, 36. 

 Lat. 50'-59. " Atlantic " type. 



On the rocky headlands of the south and west coasts, from the Isle 

 of Wight to Ross and Sutherland, in which latter county Mr. Dunbar 



