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Although the evidence abont it is very incomplete, it is the best 
authenticated specimen I know of. Yarrell (Brit. Birds, ii. p. 9) 
tells us that it was shot some years prior to 1839 at Harrow-on- 
the-Hill; while Fox (op. cit., p. 65), apparently referring to the 
same bird, speaks of it as shot at Wellwyn, in the adjoining county 
of Hertford. So good a naturalist as Yarrell appears to have 
been satisfied of its authenticity, and in the absence of any further 
evidence, one must accept his testimony. 
13. In ‘The Zoologist’ for 1845 (p. 1025) the Rev. H. Clark 
states that he had a Pine Grosbeak which was killed “in a fir- 
plantation near Rochdale, Lancashire,” in February, 1845. Mr. 
Bond has kindly informed me that he saw it several times, that it 
was a male bird, and that after Mr. Clark’s death it was sold toa 
dealer. Mr. Clark being dead, it is now too late to obtain any 
further information about it. i 
14. In Knox’s ‘ Ornithological Rambles in Sussex’ (p. 211), two 
Pine Grosbeaks are stated to have been killed in Ashdown Forest 
in February, 1848. Although it was believed at the time that they 
had been killed as stated, Mr. Knox informs me, by letter, that he 
now almost begins to doubt them. 
15. The same naturalist has recorded (l. c.) that another Pine 
Grosbeak was killed at Petworth. At this distance of time no 
further evidence is procurable. 
16. In 1850 a Pine Grosbeak was seen at Corrymulzie, Bremar, 
N.B., by the late Prof. Macgillivray, who, however, writes very 
cautiously and guardedly about it in his ‘ Natural History of Dee- 
side and Bremar’ (p. 408). 
17. The seventeenth reported occurrence is a mere name in 
the ‘Proceedings of the Somersetshire Archeological Society,’ in 
Mr. Baker’s Catalogue of the Fauna of that county. 1 applied to 
that gentleman’s grandson to know if he could tell me what ground 
there was for including it, and he has obligingly informed me that 
it appears from his grandfather’s papers that it was met with by 
Mr. Anstice, of Bridgwater, and also by the late Mr. Govett. As 
against this, | may remark that Mr. Anstice would most likely 
have communicated such an important fact to his friend Colonel 
Montagu for his ‘Ornithological Dictionary,’ who, however, has 
made no mention of it. 
18. In a note on the occurrence of rare birds near Kingsbridge 
(Zool. 3474), Mr. Charles Prideaux states that a Pine Grosbeak 
