FRINGILLINA. 203 
THE TWO-BARRED CROSSBILL. 
Loxia pirasciATa (C. L. Brehm). 
This species—sometimes called the European White-winged 
Crossbill, to distinguish it from the American form—inhabits the 
coniferous forests of Northern Russia and Siberia as far as Kam- 
chatka and the Pacific ; wandering in autumn and winter to South 
Sweden, Denmark, Heligoland, North Germany, Holland, Belgium, 
the north of France, Switzerland, North Italy, Austria and Poland. 
In our islands the first recorded specimen was obtained near Belfast, 
Ireland, on May 11th 1802, and in July or August 1868, a second 
was obtained in co. Dublin. A few years prior to 1843 one was 
killed in Cornwall ; between November 1st 1845 and March 25th 
1846 eleven were shot in the neighbourhood of Brampton in 
Cumberland ; in May 1846 two or three were killed from a flock 
near Bury St. Edmund’s, Suffolk ; and about the same time the late 
H. Doubleday shot a bird at Epping. Others seem to have been 
observed from time to time in various parts of the United Kingdom, 
and in the autumn of 1889 another invasion took place, many birds 
being observed from Yorkshire to Surrey. On June 18th 1894 an 
adult male was shot‘at North Ronaldshay, Orkneys, while in February 
1895 there were occurrences in Somerset and in co. Fermanagh. 
