NORTHERN BULLFINCH. 
PYRRHULA MAJOR, C. L. Brehm. 
Loxia pyrrhula, Linn. S. N. 1. p. 300 (pt. ?). 
Pyrrhula major, C. L. Brehm, Vog. Deutschl. p. 252; Dresser, 
iv. p. 97. 
Dompap, Norwegian and Danish; Domherre, Swedish ; 
Snigir, Russian. 
Two occurrences were recorded by Lt.-Col. Irby in 
the ‘ Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London’ 
for 1895, page 691, of birds killed on the coast of 
Yorkshire about 1st November, 1893. 
This large form of Bullfinch, the Lowia pyrrhula of 
Linneus, sometimes takes the place of the common 
smaller bird of Western, Central, and Southern Europe 
in Northern Europe, especially in Central Sweden and 
Siberia. It is declared that in one year, in districts of 
the northern countries named, the large bird may be 
found, and in another year the small one; but that the 
two never occur simultaneously. 
It is said to have quite a different note from that of 
P. vulgaris. (Osa 
