single Crossbill. I showed some of our birds to the 
country people, to whom they were quite unknown. 
Yesterday I arrived at home here, where I have an 
extensive pleasure-ground, and my chasseur brought 
to me fourteen Zoaie killed in this demesne on the 
previous evening. ‘This is most remarkable, because in 
all the country-side m which I now am the bird was 
absolutely unknown.” 
In this connection I may mention that during the 
late summer of 1889 I received information of the very 
unusual abundance of Crossbills in the neighbourhood 
of Seville, Gibraltar, and Malaga. 
