92 BIRDS OF MIDDLESEX. 



In September, 1863, a female Crossbill was caught 

 alive at Harrow, by Mr. A. Fuller. 



PARROT CROSSBILL, Loxia pityopsittacus. A bird 

 of this species was shot at Harrow in January, 1850, 

 as recorded by Mr. Yarrell in his ' History of British 

 Birds ' (vol. ii. p. 24). The following note from 

 Mr. Edward Newman, in ' The Zoologist' for 1850, 

 I believe refers to the same specimen : " I have just 

 seen a fine male specimen of the Parrot Crossbill, 

 killed yesterday at Harrow- on- the -Hill." January 

 22, 1850. 



Family STURNDXE. 



EEDWINGED STARLING, Sturnus prcedatorius. This 

 bird is a native of North America, but occasionally 

 stragglers have found their way across the Atlantic, 

 and have been noticed so many times in England 

 that the species is now included in the British list. 

 Mr. Bond has in his collection a specimen of this 

 bird, which was shot in the autumn of 1844, in a 

 reed-bed at Shepherd's Bush. The locality was then 

 described as " a swampy situation, about three miles 

 west of London, on the Uxbridge Road, where an 

 extensive tract of land, from which brick-earth has 

 been dug out, is overgrown with reeds." This bird, 

 which was a male, is described by Mr. Yarrell in his 

 * History of British Birds.' 



Wilson, the American ornithologist, quoting Ed- 

 wards, refers to another specimen " shot in the 



