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and states that one was killed near Mostyn, in Flintshire, on the 5th of October, 1753. 

 Mr. Harting, in his Handbook, enumerates altogether nineteen instances of its occurrence in 

 England, five of which refer only to the bird having been seen but not obtained. Latham 

 records the capture of one in Kent ; Montagu says one was seen near Bridgewater in 1805, and 

 one obtained in North Devon in August 1808, in which year one was recorded from Cornwall ; 

 Yarrell refers to one seen near Hooe Lake, in Cornwall; Selby to one seen in Netherwitton 

 Wood, Northumberland, in 1819 ; Moore to one obtained in Devon in 1829 ; Fisher to one 

 obtained near Yarmouth on the 30th of October, 1844 ; Borrer to one obtained near Alfriston, 

 Sussex, in September 1844 ; Busticus to one obtained near Godalming, and one seen near 

 Guildford; Webb to one obtained on Clandon Common, Surrey, in 1847; Green to one obtained 

 off Yarmouth ; Bobson to one procured near Whitehaven ; Foster to one obtained at Wisbeach 

 in November 1859; Bowe to one seen at Saltram, Devon, in October 1862; Stevenson to one 

 obtained at Gorleston, near Yarmouth, in October 1864 ; Harting to one procured near Wakefield 

 in 1865; and Gurney to one obtained at Christchurch, Hants, on the 6th of November, 1868. 

 In Scotland it has only been recorded as having occurred on four occasions. Macgillivray says 

 that a specimen in the University Museum at Edinburgh is said to have been killed in Scotland ; 

 a second, in the collection of Mr. Arbuthnot, of Peterhead, and a third, belonging to Mr. 

 Henderson, of Edinburgh, were both killed in Scotland ; and Mr. Bobert Gray (B. of W. of 

 Scotl. p. 188) records a fourth as having been obtained at Invergarry, in Inverness-shire, in 

 October 1868. In Ireland it has not occurred. 



In Scandinavia it is resident, but much commoner at some times than at others. Mr. Collett 

 informs me that " it breeds here and there in the forests of Southern Norway, but not regularly 

 at the same place. It generally appears irregularly in the autumn in various parts of the 

 country up to Trondhjemsfiord. Printz found a nest at Land in 1854. Periodical appearances 

 of large flocks take place in all parts of the country, as in 1833, 1844, and especially in 1847, 

 and to some extent in the intervening years, in both the southern and western portions of the 

 country up to Trondhjemsfiord. It has often been found breeding, as on several occasions at 

 Porsgrund and Skiensfiord in the years 1840-48 according to Schrader. Of late years there 

 has been no large migration, but this species has been numerous in certain localities, as in 

 Smaalehnene and Nedernses, Stavanger, Sondfiord, and Oerkedalen. The most northerly 

 known boundary of its range is Stoerdalen in 63J° N. lat." In Sweden, Sundevall (Sv. Fogl. 

 pp. 114, 115) says that, excepting in the year 1844, so remarkable for Nutcrackers, he does not 

 find any certain record of its occurrence further north than Upland and Wermland. In 1844 it 

 was recorded from Quickjock in 67° N. lat., Sorsele in 65^°, and Lycksele and Jemtlancl, and 

 from those localities it was spread southward through Upland, Ostergothland, Wermland, and 

 Bohuslan, to almost all portions of Skane. Stejneger says that it breeds commonly at Hesselskog, 

 in Dalsland, in the parish of Kihl, in Orebro-Lan and Upsala. In Finland, according to Yon 

 Wright (Finl. Fogl. p. 80), it is chiefly found in the south-western portion of the country. In 

 1844 they literally swarmed from June to November, and one was obtained in Kittila-Lapland 

 in December. He saw two in Laukkas in the summer of 1846 ; and in 1847 and 1850 several 

 were seen in Bautalampi in September. Mr. Sabaniieff informs us that it breeds, though rarely, 

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