MEMOIR OF THE LATE FREDERICK BOND. 415 
Grosbeak, Pyrrhula erythrina (also a hen-bird), caught at 
Hampstead, and figured by Gould in his ‘Birds of Great 
Britain.’ Several Waxwings, Ampelis garrula (Case 17), from 
various localities, including the neighbourhood of London, were 
obtained during the great visitations of 1851 and 1866-67, when 
numbers of these birds were shot in different parts of the 
country (see ‘ Zoologist,’ 1867). 
In Case 122 is the first recorded English specimen of the 
Crested Lark, Alauda cristata, procured at Littlehampton, 
Sussex, and figured by Yarrell (vol. ii. p. 177). The Siberian 
Thrush, Turdus sibiricus, Pallas, shot between Guildford and 
Godalming in the winter of 1860—61, sent to Mr. Bond as a 
variety of the Redwing, and identified by the late Edward 
Blyth, who noticed it incidentally in ‘The Field’ of 24th 
September, 1870. 
In the autumn of 1845 several small flocks or family parties 
of the Two-barred Crossbill, Lozia bifasciata, appeared in 
Cumberland, and ten or a dozen were shot in the neighbourhood 
of Brampton (‘ Zoologist,’ 1846, p. 1551, and 1847, p. 1688). 
Of these some were secured and preserved by Mr. T. C. Heysham, 
of Carlisle, and besides those traced by Mr. Macpherson (‘ Birds 
of Cumberland,’ p. 52) to the collections of Messrs. Doubleday, 
Dix, Stevenson, and John Hancock, two, both female birds, were 
sent by Heysham to Bond, in whose collection they now are 
(Case 130), with a pair of the Parrot Crossbill, Loaia pityopsit- 
tacus, from Christchurch, Hants, March, 1862, and an adult 
male of the last-named species shot near Lymington, Hants, in 
March, 1843, out of a flock of eleven birds. 
Golden Orioles, shot in Middlesex and Bedfordshire (Case 182), 
and Hoopoes from Sussex and Leicestershire (Case 118), are 
conspicuous amongst the brighter plumaged birds. 
Case 114 contains an American Purple Martin, Hirundo 
purpurea, which belonged to Yarrell, and was said to have been 
shot with another one at Kingsbury Reservoir in September, 
1842, but no one now believes the story; and there can be no 
doubt, from the result of inquiries made, that Yarrell’s credulity 
was imposed upon. In the same case is a specimen of the 
Alpine Swift, Cypselus melba, which is stated erroneously, in 
‘The Birds of Middlesex’ (p. 129), to have been shot at Reading 
in August, 1841, It was received by Mr. Bond from Mr. Wheeler, 
