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For a more detailed account of this invasion, so far as Scotland was 

 concerned, reference may be made to a paper by Mr. W. Evans in tlie 

 Proc. Roy. Phys. Soc. of Edinburgh, xviii. no. 3. 



HOLBOLL'S EEDPOLL {Linota linaria holboelli). 



During the immigration of the Mealy Redpoll {supra) numerous 

 examples of this somewhat doubtful race were identified, and Mr. W. 

 Evans estimates that of some 2000 or more birds that passed through 

 the hands of Edinburgh dealers, about one-fourth belonged to this 

 form. Others were recorded from Shetland, Fair Isle, the Isle of May, 

 Haddington and Cambrido-e. 



THE NORTHERN BULLFINCH {Pyrrhula major major). 



The arrival of a number of this northern form was a marked feature 

 of the autumn migration of 1910. 



The first two birds were taken at the Isle of May (Fife) on the 22nd of 

 October ; on the following day seven were seen in the neighbmirhood 

 of Lerwick (Shetland), and on the 24th the species was first noticed 

 in Unst (Shetland). On the 24th and 25th single birds appeared on Fair 

 Isle (Shetland), two more were taken on the Isle of May on the 26th, and 

 others were seen on Fair Isle on the 27th and 29th. On the 29th, also, 

 one was caught in East Lothian, while one was seen at Bamsness Light 

 (Haddington) on the 31 st. On the 2nd of November numbers arrived on 

 Fair Isle, and another was taken at the Isle of May ; one was seen in 

 N, Unst on the 7th, another at Fair Isle on the 10th, and others at 

 Lerwick on the 20th and 21st. At the end of the month one was caught 

 at Berwick-on-Tweed, while others were reported from Fifeshire and 

 from several places on the Yorkshire coast during November. On 

 the 3rd of December one was shot on the S. Yorkshire coast, and on the 

 18th two more were seen at Lerwick. 



THE CROSSBILL [Loxia curvirostra). 



July 7th. St. Kilda, one found exhausted. 



,, 10th. Bass Rock (Forth), one arrived. 



Aug. 3rd, Barra (O. Hebrides), seven arrived. 



„ 4th. Troutbeck (Westmoreland), several seen. 



„ 6th. Northrepps (Norfolk), fourteen seen. 



„ 8th. Fair Isle (Shetland), nine arrived. 



,, 9th. Torphins (Deeside), one. 



„ 10th. Northrepps, eight seen. 



„ 12th, Aldringham (Suffolk), great increase (few since 

 July 28th). 



