118 RAEE VISITANTS. 



AMERICAN MEADOW STARLING. Sturnella magna 

 (Linnaeus). 



Hob. Eastern United States to the High Central Plains. 



One, Thrandeston, Suffolk : Sclater, Ibis, 1861, p. 176. 

 One seen, South Walsham, Norfolk : Sclater, /. c. 

 One near Cheltenham, many years ago * : Lloyd, The Field, 

 llth March, 1871. 



Fam. CORVID^E. 



NUTCRACKER. Nucifmga caryocatactes (Linnaeus). 

 Hab. Northern and Central Europet- 



One, near Mostyn, Flintshire, 5th Oct. 1753 : Pennant, Brit. 



Zool. vol. ii. p. 265 (1766). 

 One, Kent : Latham, Synopsis, vol. i. p. 400. 

 One seen near Bridgewater, autumn 1805 : Montagu, Orn. 



Diet. Suppl. 1813. 

 One, North Devon, August 1808 : Montagu, op. cit., figured 



in Graves, Brit. Orn. vol. i. (1821). 

 One, Cornwall : Monthly Magazine, Dec. 1808. 



* This specimen was forwarded by Mr. Lloyd for my inspection, 

 and to be named, in March 1871. 



t Examples from Scandinavia are said to possess shorter and 

 stouter bills than those obtained in Central Europe, on which ac- 

 count the two forms have been specifically separated, though with 

 what justice I am unable to say, not having examined a sufficiently 

 large series. It is possible that this variation may depend upon sex. 

 On this subject the reader may be referred to De Selys Longchamps 

 (Bulletin Acad. Sci. Bruxelles, torn. xi. no. 10), and to Fisher " On 

 the Two Species or Varieties of the Nutcracker " (Zoologist, 1845, 

 p. 1073). Both forms have been procured in this country. 



