114 RARE VISITANTS. 



Two, Ashdown Forest, Sussex, Feb. 1848: Knox, Orn. 

 Rambles in Sussex, p. 212. 



One near Petworth, Sussex : Knox, /. c. 



One, Braemar, August 1850 : Macgillivray, Nat. Hist. Dee- 

 side, p. 403. 



One, Somersetshire : Baker, Somerset Archseol. Proc. 1851, 

 p. 144. 



One, Taunton : Prideaux, Zoologist, 1862, p. 3474. 



One seen at Dunkeld : Col. Drummond Hay, hitherto unre- 

 corded. 



Fam. LOXIID^a. 



PAEEOT CEOSSB1LL. Loxia pityopsittacus, Bechstein. 

 Hab. Northern Europe and Western Siberia. 



One, Shropshire : Pennant, Brit. Zool. 



Two, Scotland : Yarrell, Hist. Brit. Birds, ii. p. 24. 



Two, Ross-shire, 1833 : Gray, Birds of West of Scotland, 

 p. 154. 



Nine, Dartmoor, 1838 : Rowe, List of Birds of Devon, p. 27. 



Several, Edwinstowe, Notts, 1849 : Sterland, Birds of Sher- 

 wood Forest, p. 126. 



Two, Caithness: Osborne, Proc. Roy. Phys. Soc. Edinb. 

 vol. ii. p. 341. 



One, Harrow, Middlesex, Jan. 1850 : Newman, Zoologist, 



1850, p. 2770; Harting, Birds of Middlesex, p. 92. 



One, Riddles worth Hall, Norfolk : Stevenson, Birds of Nor- 

 folk, vol. i. p. 239. 

 One, Saxham, Suffolk*, Nov. 1850 : Newton, Zoologist, 



1851, p. 3145. 



* In the ' Zoologist ' for 1863, p. 8845, and in Gould's < Birds of 

 Great Britain,' mention is made of several Parrot Crossbills, killed at 

 Brandon, Suffolk, in October 1863 and March 1864 ; but these sub- 

 sequently proved to be only large varieties of the Common Crossbill 

 (c/. Stevenson, ' Birds of Norfolk,' vol. i. pp. 239, 240). 



