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PINE GROSBEAK IN NOTTS. 
fe WHITLOCK. 
Beeston, Notts. 
A FINE male specimen of this bird d (Pinizole enucleator) was killed on 
30th October last, near Watnall, by Dr. Dixon of Eastwood. The 
bird, when first observed, was drinking at a small pond. On being 
disturbed it flew he an adjacent tree, when the doctor shot it. 
This is the first Nottinghamshire occurrence of this species, and 
Mr. Whitaker, of Rainworth, informs me only the sixth authenticated 
specimen for Great Britain. As I was the first to identify the 
bird at the taxidermist’s shop, I append a short description of it. 
Beak, shaped very much like that of the bullfinch; the upper 
mandible dark-brown, the lower one much lighter except at the tip. 
‘Crown, vermilion lake, with a few grey tips to the feathers ; lores, 
grey. Nape, alternate longitudinal stripes of grey and lake. 
feathers of the upper parts grey and lake in about equal proportions. 
Upper tail coverts, grey, tinged with lake. Tail, dark grey, tinged 
with red on the outer edges of most of the feathers. Chin, grey; 
throat, cheeks, and breast, crimson lake but paler than the crown. 
omen and under tail coverts, grey. The whole of the wing dark- 
grey, broadly edged with white on the wing-coverts. Legs and feet, 
dark-brown. Irides, dark hazel. 
NOTE—GEOLOGY. 
The Basement Gong loierate of the Carboniferous in Westmorland 
and Yorkshire.—In a n the July number (p. 202) Yr pointed out that the 
pebbles in this Saitonicraie. as seen at Ullswater, consist mostly of a grit 
r 
rdovicians of the Lake district. <A gaits ection of ee bles Pires eee west of 
pean PA i oanefiati which is only rere padtonge x: in the main outcrop in West- 
morland and North Lancashire, ths it is well seen at Keisley ne: a Hutton 
is only about two miles from suatlit, the Touts noticed te for 
In Hebblethwaite Gill, near agers sh, where a very considerable thickness of 
re and 
rie ania tolomitised 0 charged with piieeaie of iron, At ap Saiyan 
wever, most of t pee es are of a red-and-green- spotted eer , some- 
rie including cubes of pyrites converted into limonite, and s baer: ouae 
e Ingleton grit. A few other rocks occur, e.g., a felsite with ies epics? 
by dark apart resembling some of those intrusive in the Ordovician 
In some sient he materials of the to be strictly lca, as 
the bec naanely west of aan Wells Hotel, where the rock is made up 
almost babe vat débris of Shap Fell Sere of which partially decomposed but 
easily recognised fragments are seen imbedded in a matrix apparently of similar 
origin. —ALFRED HaRKERr, Cambridge, October 17th, 1890. 
Naturalist, 
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