228 BRITISH BIRDS. 



Oxfordshire. — A flock of fourteen at Shotover, near Oxford, 

 on November 5th (F. A. Monckton). 



Bucks. — A small party (seven or eight) at (Jhalfont St. Peter 

 on October 31st (J. Beddall Smith). 



Berks. — First flock seen near Henley-on-Thames in second 

 week in August and the last noticed on October 16th 

 (H. Noble). 



Hampshire, —A single bird near Hayling Island on Oc- 

 tober 29th. Feeding on grass-seeds : flew away west- 

 wards (H. Atkins). A small party first seen at Laverstoke, 

 Whitchurch, on July 18th, and at intervals parties have 

 been noticed up to the present — November 20th (P. W. 

 Munn) . 



Surrey. — Fifteen to twenty (old and young) in a fir-tree in 

 Hampton Court Gardens, on October 25th (R. Godfrey, 

 Field, 30.x. '09, p. 802). Small flocks frequenting garden 

 at Purley on September 14th (M. C. Baily, Selbome Mag., 

 1909, p. 205). 



Co. Down, Ireland.—" The Rev. R. H. Coote writes me that 

 a Crossbill, which appeared to be in a much exhausted 

 state, was shot by his gardener, Joseph Law, in the first 

 week of October last, at the Rectory, Donaghadee, 

 co. Down" (W. H. Workman). 



CROSSBILLS IN THE FAROES. 

 I see in your last number that the Rev. Francis Turreff 

 records the Crossbill from the Faeroes, but he is in error in 

 supposing that this is the first record of the occurrence of this 

 species in those islands. As long ago as 1862 Herr H. C. 

 Miiller [Fserbemes Fuglefauna) records that in September, 

 1861, they were numerous, and that he obtained two. I have 

 come across the following records of occurrences subsequent 

 to this date: a pair, July 10th, 1868, a pair, July 15th, 1868, 

 about six seen June 29th,' 1882, two, July 9th, 1882, one, July, 

 1892 (communicated by Herr H. C. Miiller to Herr Knud 

 Andersen, Vidensk. Medd. fra den naturh. Foren. i Kblivn., 

 1901). " On the whole not uncommon .... I have many 

 times shot them .... the last time I saw them was in 

 1894 or 1895" (Herr P. F. Petersen in litt. to Herr Knud 

 Andersen, id., 1898). One, winter of 1901-2 (id. 1905). 

 Colonel Feilden (Zool., 1872). 



All the skins received at the Zoological Museum in Copen- 

 hagen from the Faeroes are Loxia curvirostra curvirostra. 



Loxia bifasciata has also occurred once — an adult male in 1898 

 (Knud Andersen, Vidensk. Medd. fra den naturh. Foren. i Kblivn. , 

 1899). C. B. Ticehurst. 



