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between Ramsey and Sulby, Isle of Man. Mr. McWhannell 

 writes me that he judged them to be two adult birds 

 and six young. Some days later, Mr. McWhannell did 

 not find them, and has seen none since. Crossbills have 

 in various years been seen, and even suspected of 

 breeding, on the line of wooded hills where Glenduff is 

 situated (P. C. Ralfe). 

 Ireland. — Many were seen near Fassaroe, Bray, in July and 

 early August, 1909 (R. M. Barrington, Irish Nat., 1910, 

 p. 13). About June 30th, 1909, one was captured on 

 the extreme west coast of Connaught (" G. W.," Field, 

 8.1.1910, p. 74). 



H. F. W. 



AN OVERLOOKED RECORD OF THE TWO-BARRED 

 CROSSBILL IN SCOTLAND. 



The fact that Saunders in the second edition of his " Manual " 

 (Pt. 6, April,' 1898) makes definite mention of only one 

 occurrence of the Two-barred Crossbill (Loxia bifasciata) in 

 Scotland, namely, an adult male shot on North Ronaldshay, 

 in the Orkneys, on June 18th, 1894, has led to the supposition 

 that up to that time there was no other authentic record from 

 north of the Border (see British Birds, Vol. II., p. 423). It 

 may, therefore, be well to point out that Mr. George Bolam 

 recorded in the "Annals of Scottish Natural History" for 

 April, 1897, p. 86, that he had examined a specimen shot in 

 Staneshiel covert, Bunkle, Berwickshire, on December 19th, 

 1889. It was in the company of Common Crossbills, and was 

 originally recorded as a male of the American White-winged 

 Crossbill (J. Barrie, Proc. Berw. Nat. Club, XII., Pt. 3, 1890, 

 p. 532). 



It may, I think, be safely assumed that the " White-winged 

 Crossbill " (male) shot near Jedburgh, Roxburghshire, in 

 February, 1841, and recorded by Archibald Jerdon in the 

 first volume of the "Zoologist " (p. 221), would also belong 

 to the European form ; and the same may be said of the two 

 shot by Saxby in Unst on September 4th, 1859, and described 

 in his " Birds of Shetland," 1874, p. 115. 



William Evans. 



SNOW-BUNTING IN DORSET. 



My friend, Captain Portman, records (supra, p. 262) the occur- 

 rence of a specimen of the Snow-Bunting (Plectrophenax 

 nivalis) on the edge of Poole Harbour in October, 1908, and 



