ON THE PINE GROSBEAK. 245 
years ago, and I had a photograph taken of it, which is now before 
me. It was a female bird, of a greenish yellow colour and in moult. 
The only objection which has been raised to its authenticity is the 
odd place where it was said to have been killed—zz. Bill Quay, 
near Newcastle. I do not know the locality myself, but we are 
accustomed to think of a “ Quay” asa place where foreign birds 
are sold in cages. It is just possible that this Pine Grosbeak may 
have been a caged importation, in which case it might very well 
have been got there, though not shot there.* I have a note that, 
according to another account, it was obtained at Coble Dene, 
near Shields, but I have unfortunately mislaid the reference, and 
I have quite forgotten now what my authority for that change im 
the locality was. 
6. It seems just possible that the flight of Pine Grosbeaks 
recorded in Paget’s ‘ Natural History of Yarmouth’ (p. 6), as having 
“been seen on the Denes, Nov. 1822,” may have been confounded 
in some way with the Hawfinches, a large flight of which are 
stated by the same author to have appeared in the January 
following. We are not informed that any were captured; only a 
flight of them “seen,” by whom is not stated; but a person not 
well acquainted with birds, might perhaps mistake a flock of Haw- 
finches for Pine Grosbeaks. 
7. In Lubbock’s ‘Fauna of Norfolk’ it is remarked (p. 36) 
that “a pair of the Pine Grosbeak (Lowia enucleator) are now 
preserved in Yarmouth, shot near that place, and which are 
said to have had a nest, which unfortunately was destroyed.” 
This I have no doubt is the same pair and nest alluded to 
in Gurney and Fisher’s ‘Catalogue of Norfolk Birds’ (p. 21) 
as occurring at Raveningham, near Yarmouth. As the authors 
knew the late Mr. Lubbock, they in all probability communi- 
cated with him on this subject. If the Pine Grosbeak was ever 
a British bird, it was probably only a winter or an autumn 
visitant, at any rate not a summer one, and it seems impossible to 
believe that it could ever have nested in Norfolk. 
8. In September, 1694, according to a statement in Fox’s 
‘Synopsis of the Newcastle Museum’ (pp. 65, 101), a flock of 
about a hundred birds visited a hemp-yard in Pembrokeshire, 
and destroyed all the hemp-seed. They were so tame, or intent 
on their feeding “ that, being forced from their places, they would 
* Mr. Selby, in the Catalogue referred to, says that the bird ‘‘ was shot,”—Ep. 
