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A PRACTICAL HANDBOOK OF BRITISH BIRDS. 



in north. Incubation. Said to last 18 days ; apparently chiefly 

 performed by hen. One brood. 



FOOD. Mainly seeds of conifers, especially Pinus cembra where 

 found, but also hazel-nuts, juniper-berries, and insects (coleoptera, 

 orthoptera, odonata, etc.), flesh, and young birds. 



DISTRIBUTION. England. Rare vagrant. Some occurrences 

 recorded under N. c. macrorhynchus may have been of this form, 

 but only the following have been satisfactorily identified : Sussex 

 one near Chichester, Dec. 21, 1900, male near Brede, Feb. 12, 

 1907, one Penhurst, Nov. 7, 1908, female near Hastings, March 4, 

 1909 ; Kent male, Benenden, Jan. 14, 1905 ; Cheshire male near 

 Northwich, 1860. 



DISTRIBUTION. Abroad. Scandinavia, Bornholm, Denmark, 

 northern Russia, East Prussia, and principal mountain- 

 systems of Europe (Harz, Bohmerwald, Alps, Carpathians, Tatra, 

 Balkans, etc.) 



8. Nucifraga caryocatactes macrorhynchus Brehm THE 

 SLENDER-BILLED NUTCRACKER. 



NUCIFRAGA MACRORHYNCHOS Brehm, Lehrb. Naturg. eur. Vogel, i, 

 p. 103 (1823 Mountain forests mid. N. Errope and Asia, occasionally 

 Germany. Type, a migrant shot in winter in Germany)^ 

 Nticifraga caryoca.actes (Linnaeus), Yarrell, n, p. 330 (part) ; Sannders, 

 p. 233 (part). 



A. Thick-billed Nutcracker (Nucifraga c. caryocatactes). 



B. Slender-billed luucracker (Nun)ragn c. macrorhynchus). 



