PINE-GROSBEAK, 
PYRRHULA ENUCLEATOR (Linn.). 
Loxia enucleator, Linn. 8. N. i. p. 299 (1766). 
Pyrrhula enucleator, Naum. iv. p. 403; Macg. i. p. 411; 
Hewitson, i. p. 210*; Yarr. ed. 4, ii. p. 177. 
Pinicola enucleator, Dresser, iv. p. 111. 
Dur-bec vulgaire, French ; Fichten-Gimpel, German. 
Although this species has been recorded as having 
occurred on more than twenty occasions in our country, 
I find that Professor Newton (Yarrell’s ‘ British Birds,’ 
Ath ed. vol. ii. p. 177) and Mr. J. H. Gurney (‘ Zoolo- 
gist,’ 1877) are agreed that not more than five of these 
records at most are worthy of serious attention. Mr. H. 
Saunders (‘ Manual,’ p. 191) considers that few even 
of these sifted records are entitled to acceptance, but 
does not feel justified in summarily rejecting a bird that 
has for so long occupied a place in our list. I entirely 
agree with the last-named author, but go rather further 
than he does, in looking upon all occurrences of the 
Pine-Grosbeak in the United Kingdom as “escapes” 
from captivity. To me the matter of the admission to, 
or exclusion from, the “ British’ list of any bird that 
