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saw them flying above the great forests of Invercauld, in 

 Aberdeenshire ; and he imagined that they had bred there, 

 because he saw them as early as the 5th of August. Mr. 

 Selby observes, " Such a conclusion, however, ought 

 scarcely to be inferred from this fact, as a sufficient interval 

 of time had elapsed for these individuals to have emigrated 

 from Norway, or other northern counties to Scotland, after 

 incubation, as they are known to breed as early as May in 

 their native haunts. I have made many inquiries respect- 

 ing these birds, during excursions in Scotland, but cannot 

 learn that the nest has ever been found ; and indeed, 

 from the intelligence obtained from gamekeepers, and 

 those most likely to have made observations connected 

 with ornithology, it appears that they are very rarely 

 seen, and can only be regarded as occasional visitants." 

 Only one specimen is recorded as having been killed in 

 Ireland, and this was shot in December 1819 at the Cave- 

 hill, near Belfast. 



Messrs. C. J. and James Paget, in their sketch of the 

 Natural History of Yarmouth, mention at page 6, that a 

 flight of these birds was seen on the Denes in November 

 1822, and the Rev. Richard Lubbock, in his Fauna of Nor- 

 folk, refers to a pair that were shot, and which were said to 

 have had a nest, which unfortunately was destroyed. Mr. 

 Rylands, in his Catalogue of Birds found in Lancashire, 

 published in the second volume of the Naturalist, includes 

 the Pine Grosbeak as obtained in Hulston fir trees, on the 

 authority of T. K. Glazebrook, Esq. ; and a female in my 

 own collection was shot some years ago at Harrow on the 

 Hill. 



The Pine Grosbeak, or Pine Bullfinch as it is frequently 

 called, closely resembles the Common Bullfinch in the form 

 of its beak, and in other generic characters ; while it agrees 



