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saw them flying above the great forests of Invercauld, in 
Aberdeenshire ; and he imagined that they had bred there, 
because he saw them as early as the 5th of August. Mr. 
Selby observes, “‘Such a conclusion, however, ought 
scarcely to be inferred from this fact, as a sufficient interval 
of time had elapsed for these individuals to have emigrated 
from Norway, or other northern counties to Scotland, after 
incubation, as they are known to breed as early as May in 
their native haunts. I have made many inquiries respect- 
ing these birds, during excursions in Scotland, but cannot 
learn that the nest has ever been found; and indeed, 
from the intelligence obtained from gamekeepers, and 
those most likely to have made observations connected 
with ornithology, it appears that they are very rarely 
seen, and can only be regarded as occasional visitants.” 
Only one specimen is recorded as having been killed in 
Treland, and this was shot in December 1819 at the Cave- 
hill, near Belfast. 
Messrs. C. J. and James Paget, in their sketch of the 
Natural History of Yarmouth, mention at page 6, that a 
flight of these birds was seen on the Denes in November 
1822, and the Rev. Richard Lubbock, in his Fauna of Nor- 
folk, refers to a pair that were shot, and which were said to 
have had a nest, which unfortunately was destroyed. Mr. 
Rylands, in his Catalogue of Birds found in Lancashire, 
published in the second volume of the Naturalist, includes 
the Pine Grosbeak as obtained in Hulston fir trees, on the 
authority of T. K. Glazebrook, Esq. ; and a female in my 
own collection was shot some years ago at Harrow on the 
Hill. 
The Pine Grosbeak, or Pine Bullfinch as it is frequently 
called, closely resembles the Common Bullfinch in the form 
of its beak, and in other generic characters ; while it agrees 
