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and published in the proceedings of that Society, vol. ii., p. 341, 

 that a specimen of this Crossbill was found dead near Lyth, in 

 Caithness, and that another specimen a male had previously 

 been taken alive in a fishing-boat in which the bird alighted when 

 at sea. The first named specimen was exhibited at the meeting 

 by Dr Smith, the Society's secretary. 



To these instances I may add another, the occurrence of which 

 has been obligingly communicated to me by Edward Hargitt, Esq. 

 of London; it was a female bird, shot near Lochend, Inverness, 

 on 5th December, 1868. 



THE EUROPEAN WHITE- WINGED CEOSSBILL. 

 LOXIA BIFASCIATA (NILSSON). 



I CAN say nothing of this bird from personal observation, nor can 

 I find any recorded Scottish example of the species except that 

 mentioned by Mr Yarrell as having been killed in Roxburghshire 

 by Mr Jerdon in March, 1845. On referring to the "History of 

 British Birds" by that author, it will be seen that after mentioning 

 the occurrence of the first specimen in Ireland in 1802, he states 

 that " Pennant also mentions in his ' British Zoology ' having been 

 told of a second killed in Scotland," an obvious misquotation, 

 as there is no notice of the White-winged Crossbill by Pennant 

 himself in the earlier editions of his work. It is first introduced 

 into the edition of 1812 by Dr Latham, who revised, for the 

 editor, the ornithological portion of it. His words are "The 

 reason of my giving the bird a place here is its having been shot 

 within two miles of Belfast in January, 1802. I had indeed been 

 informed before of the species having been met with in Scotland, 

 but the report came through so uncertain a channel as to forbid 

 my noticing it. J. L." Pennant died in 1798. 



THE AMERICAN WHITE WINGED CROSSBILL. 



LOXIA LEU COPT ERA (GMELIN). 



IN February, 1841, a specimen of this straggling visitant to Britain 

 was shot near Jedburgh, and came under the notice of Mr Jerdon, 

 whose name appears in connection with the preceding species; and 



