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Partial to the Downs and open country. Rare 

 in the weald. 



BULLFINCH, Pyrrhula vulgaris. Generally dis- 

 persed. 



PINE GROSBEAK, Pyrrhula enucleator. I can 

 record but two instances of the occurrence of this 

 rare bird in Sussex. An example was shot a few 

 years ago near Cotes House, about three miles 

 from Petworth, while feeding on the seeds of a pi- 

 naster, by a gentleman of the name of Mellersh, 

 who, being well acquainted with British birds, at 

 once recognized the species. In February, 1848, 

 two were killed at the same time in Ashdown 

 Forest. One of them, which I saw, was an adult 

 male. 



COMMON CROSSBILL, Loxia curmrostra. An ac- 

 cidental visitor. In the autumn of 1835 great 

 numbers of these birds were observed in most of 

 the pine woods and larch plantations of Sussex. 

 They were abundant during that year at Salt Hill, 

 near Chichester, and in the neighbourhood of 

 Midhurst and Parham. Like the hawfinch, the 

 crossbill is very uncertain and irregular in its ap- 

 pearance. 



Family STURNID^. 



COMMON STARLING, Sturnus vulgar is. Abundant. 

 ROSE-COLOURED PASTOR, Pastor roseus. A very 



