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stick to drive it out.' Two or three have been shot at Netting 

 Hill, near London; one near Esher, Surrey. N. Rowe, Esq., 

 of Worcester College, Oxford, says that he has been informed 

 that this species is common in Stowe Park, Buckinghamshire, 

 the seat of His Grace the Duke of Buckingham; and James 

 Dalton, Esq., of Worcester College, Oxford, has informed me 

 that it .breeds there, as it also does in Epping Forest, in 

 considerable numbers, and at Walthamstow, in Essex, and 

 the neighbourhood of Woburn, in Bedfordshire, as Mr. G. B. 

 Clarke, of that place, writes me word; but he says that they 

 are there most seen in the winter, when they come to feed 

 on the seeds of the hawthorn and the holly, their 'Christmas 

 Tree.' On one occasion they have been known to breed near 

 Oxford. 



At Windsor, and at Bradfield, near Beading, Berkshire, it 

 remains throughout the year, as the Rev. Thomas Stevens, 

 of that place, told me, and has also been known to breed 

 regularly in the grounds of Lord Clifden, at Roehampton, 

 and near Tenterden, Bexley, Dartford, Maidstone, and Pens- 

 hurst, in. Kent. It has also been seen in Badminton Park, 

 Gloucestershire, the seat of His Grace the Duke of Beaufort; 

 Tring and Berkhampstead, in Hertfordshire; Chipping Norton 

 and Wytham, in Oxfordshire; Goodwood and Rye, in Sussex, 

 in plenty near the latter in 1849. Selborne, in Hampshire; 

 Repton and Melbourne, in Derbyshire; Taverham, where one 

 was taken alive in a pigeon-house, and Yarmouth, Norfolk; 

 Orniskirk, in Lancashire; and once at Woodside, near Carlisle, 

 in Cumberland; also occasionally in Gloucestershire, Shrop- 

 shire, Dorsetshire, Devonshire, Cornwall, Suffolk, and Cam- 

 bridgeshire. 



In Ireland, a few have been met with in various parts; 

 at Hillsborough and Tollymore Park, the seat of Lord Roden, 

 in the county of Down; at Cittadella and Ardrum, in the 

 county of Cork, the former in the winter of 1844; near Mill- 

 town, in the county of Kerry, at the end of October, 1830; 

 and during the winter of 1844, the species was obtained in 

 different parts of that county; but in the Phcenix Park, near 

 Dublin, where the hawthorn trees are both among the finest 

 and in the greatest numbers that I have ever seen, they 

 appear to be procurable in small numbers every winter. 



In Scotland, one or two have been killed in Dumfriesshire. 

 In Orkney and iShetland it appears to be unknown. 



It is with us both a permanent resident and an occasional 



