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was lately (that is about 1851-2) killed at Taunton. Your corre- 
spondent, Mr. Nicholls, informed me some time ago that he saw 
the bird at the time, that it had been bought of a dealer, and that 
it looked to him as if it had been set up from the flesh. It may 
therefore rank with Mr. Bond’s bird as one of the better authen- 
ticated specimens. 
19. This record is the last mentioned by Mr. Harting (op. cit.), 
and refers to one seen at Dunkeld, N.B., by Col. Drummond Hay, 
as he told me when I had the pleasure of meeting him some 
time ago. 
20, 21, 22. In addition to the foregoing, I have three more 
records to refer to, one relating to Lancashire, one to Hampshire, 
and one to Devonshire. In the first of these counties, the locality 
is Hulston, the date prior to 1837, and the recorder Mr. Rylands, 
on the authority of the late Mr. T. K. Glazebrook (Naturalist, 1837, 
p- 352). In the second, that is Hampshire, the locality is Thruxton 
(Zoologist, p. 9023), but in this instance I have been informed by 
the recorder himself, that a mistake was made in the identification 
of the species. As regards the third, 1 learn from Mr. Byne of 
Taunton, that he is in possession of a Devonshire-killed Pine 
Grosbeak, but its history, so far as I can make out, after a good 
deal of correspondence with various parties, is not satisfactory.* 
Mr. Gatcombe informs me that on the 8th November, 1868, 
the Rev. Mr. Furneaux saw a pair of Pine Grosbeaks feeding on 
the seeds of an Arbor-vitze at St. Germains, in Cornwall, and felt 
sure about the species. I have a note of being told that it was 
included, on the authority of the Rev. G. Tugwell, in one edition 
of the ‘Handbook of Devon,’ in which is followed the excellent 
practice of some recent Guides to counties, of devoting a chapter 
to Natural History. I have two editions of this Handbook, but 
neither of them contain any such record. 
In Mr. Gray’s valuable work on the ‘ Birds of the West of Scot- 
land,’ already quoted, the Pine Grosbeak is mentioned as included 
in a list of the birds of the Esk Valley, in Midlothian;+ and Mr. 
W. C. Angus has obligingly informed me that the Rev. J. M. 
* Perhaps this is the same bird as No, 18.—Ep. 
+ This list is contained in an anonymous edition of Allan Ramsay’s ‘ Gentle 
Shepherd; a Pastoral Comedy,’ published at Edinburgh in 1808 (vol.i. pp. 269—271). 
Dr. Patrick Neill is said to have drawn up the botanical lists contained in this work, 
but it does not appear who was responsible for the zoological lists.—Ep. 
