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IRRUPTION OF CROSSBILLS.* 



Bedfordshire. — A flock of over fifty on August 1st, 1909, at 

 Sandy (J. Steele Elliott). " Since writing to you in 

 December (cf. supra, p. 260), I have seen Crossbills 

 almost every day that I have been in the large woods on 

 our estate (Woburn) " (The Duchess of Bedford, in litt., 

 January 16th, 1910). 



Berkshire. — Small flocks still (December 31st, 1909) at 

 Temple Combe (Heatley Noble). 



Buckinghamshire. — Flock of about thirty on December 30th, 



1909, at Fawley Court (Heatley Noble). 

 Gloucestershire. — Small flock (six or seven) on January 9th, 



1910, near Cirencester (Collingwood Ingram). Twelve 

 seen on December 5th, 1909, amongst larches at Rod- 

 borough, Stroud (E. N. Witchell, Field, 25, xii., 1909, 

 p. 1173). They breed near Stroud every year (M. L. 

 Ridgway, t.c, 8.1.1910, p. 74). Flocks of fifteen to 

 twenty still (January 20th) to be seen at Mitcheldean 

 (N. F. Bichardson). 



Hampshire. — Two on January 3rd, 1910, at Holmsley, near 

 Ringwood (H. F. Witherby). Two or three on November 

 15th 1909, and January 1st, 1910, at Airdridge, 

 near Botley (Lady Jenkyns). Two pairs on January 16th 

 on the Beaulieu Manor, near Brockenhurst (H. Noble). 

 Six or seven on July 19th-20th, 1909, at New Milton ; the 

 same morning "my neighbour Mr. C. C. Dallas, who 

 lives on the southern border of the New Forest, reported 

 a flock in his garden " ; two on October 9th and four on 

 October 25th, flying over towards the Forest ; several 

 small flocks on November 16th, near Netley Hospital ; 

 four or five on November 17th, in Talbot Woods, near 

 Bournemouth ; flocks in varying numbers from November 

 18th to December 8th, at New Milton ; two on December 

 29th, flying over Brockenhurst Park (B. E. Coles). 



Herefordshire. — About forty to fifty on January 19th, 1910, 

 at Ledbury (Heatley Noble). 



Herts. — Flock of eighteen on January 2nd, 1910, feeding in 

 some tall pines at Broxbourne (31. Harris). Three 

 (two males, one female) on January 2nd in a larch tree 

 between Rickmansworth and Chorley Wood Common 

 (H. B. Leach). About a dozen on November 21st, 1909, 

 at Watton (Bev. Allan Ellison). Six or seven early in 

 October, 1909, and four or five more on December 18th, 

 * For previous references to this subject, cf., pp. 82, 123, 162, 190- 



194, 226-228, 258-261. 



