20.2 Kev. F. C. R. Jourdain on the 



foot-liilLs, nesting, as Whitehead remarks^ in the olive and 

 cork trees, often quite close to villages. It also breeds in 

 ilex and pine trees. Unlike the Goldfinch, however, it is 

 also met with in the clearings of the pine-forest, where 

 there is an undergrowth of heath {Erica), up to at least 

 3000 ft., and here the nest may occasionally be found in 

 tall heath. The tiny structure with its characteristic lining 

 of hair is, as a rule, difficult to find, even where the bii'ds are 

 common. Not one of the seven or eight nests examined 

 contained more than four eggs. Whitehead took eggs on 

 April 8 and 16; but although one nest was found with 

 fledged young on May 13, seven others all contained eggs 

 between May 9 and 30. 



20. LoxiA cuRVi ROSTRA cuRviROSTRA L. Crossbill. 

 Resident iu the pine-forests, where Whitehead describes it 



as fairly common, and saw a few family-parties of six or seven 

 on the wing in May. Out of several shot, none were in 

 bright red plumage. Hartert, who has compared specimens, 

 ascribes them to the ordinary continental form. I met with 

 one flock of perhaps twenty birds in high-lying pine-forest 

 on May 27, all of which appeared to be in yellowish-green 

 plumage. It was interesting to watch them at work on the 

 cones which still hung on a dead pine, but after a few 

 seeds had been extracted the cone was often allowed to fall 

 to the ground. Among a series of Corsican bird-skins 

 recently acquired by the Hon. W. Rothschild are those of 

 two adult Crossbills, one in red plumage, and also a nestling. 

 All are from Vizzavona, and the old birds agree well with 

 the ordinary continental race, except in being shorter- 

 winged (95 and 90 mm). The nestling, which cannot have 

 left the nest for more than two or three weeks, is dated 

 September 25, so that eggs must have been laid about the 

 end of July or early in August ! 



21. Fringilla cfELEBs TYRRHENicA Schicbel. Corsicau 

 Chaffinch. 



Fringilla ccelebs t'jrrhcnica Schiebel, Ornitli. Jahrbuch, 

 xxi. p. 102 (1910— Corsica). 



