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Dr. Burgess’ Catalogue, has not been able to throw any light on 
the matter in his ‘ Birds of the West of Scotland.’ 
3. I have not seen Don’s ‘Fauna of Forfarshire, but am 
indebted to Mr. Gray for the following extract from it (p. 43) :— 
“ Loxia curvirostra, the Crossbill, and enucleator, the Pine Gros- 
beak. These two species of Loawia have come in great numbers to 
the woods of Glammiss and Lindertis, and totally destroyed the 
whole of the larch and fir-cones for these two years past.” Don’s 
‘Fauna of Forfarshire’ was published in 1813: it is now impossible 
to decide whether he was competent to distinguish the species 
named by him or not. - 
4. In Ireland this bird is supposed, on the vaguest testimony, to 
have been once obtained. The following is Thompson’s account 
of the specimen in his ‘ Natural History of Ireland’ (Birds), vol. i., 
p- 275:—“In the manuscript journal of that eminent naturalist, 
John Templeton, Esq., is the following note :—‘ December the 20th, 
1819. Yesterday heard from Mr. Montgomery, of Belfast [the 
late Mr. John Montgomery, of Locust Lodge] that Mr. Bradford 
{a pump-maker] had received a specimen of Lowia enucleator, 
which was shot at the Cave Hill [vicinity of Belfast], and on 
showing [him] the figure in the ‘Naturalists Miscellany,’ he 
recognized it to be the bird.’” Mr. John Templeton died in 1827: 
ten years afterwards his son published a list of Irish Vertebrates, 
from materials found amongst his papers (Mag. of Nat. Hist., N.s., 
vol. i. p. 403), in which the Pine Grosbeak is mentioned as “a 
doubtful native,” but no particulars are given of the specimen which 
was shot by Mr. Bradford at Cave Hill. I am told that the figure 
of the Pine Grosbeak in the ‘ Naturalists Miscellany’ is a gaudy 
red picture. I have not seen the work lately, but, if 1 remember 
right, many of its plates might puzzle a better naturalist than 
Mr. Bradford, and I should be inclined to discredit his identification, 
if for no other reason than that he professed to have recognised the 
species from such a bad figure. 
5. In Selby’s “Catalogue of the Birds of Northumberland and 
Durham” (Trans. Nat. Hist. Soc. Northumb., 1831, p. 265) that 
anthor writes :— Strobilophaga enucleator. Pine Grosbeak. A 
specimen of this rare British species, now in the possession of 
Mr. Anthony Clapham, was shot at Bill Quay, near Newcastle.” 
This bird passed from Mr. Clapham to the late Mr. W. Backhouse, 
and is now in the possession of his son. It was lent to me Some 
