118 KARE VISITANTS. 



AMBEICAN MEADOW STAELING. Stumella magna 

 (Linnaeus). 



Hab. Eastern United States to the High Central Plaios. 



One, Thrandeston, Suffolk : Sclater, Ibis, 1861, p. 176. 

 One seen. South "Walsham, Norfolk : Sclater, I. c. 

 One near Cheltenham, many years ago* : Lloyd, The Field, 

 11th March, 1871. 



Fam. CORVID^. 



NUTCEACKEE. Nucifraga caryocatactes (Linnaeus). 

 Hab. Northern and Central Europef. 



One, near Mostyn, Flintshire, 5th Oct. 1753: Pennant, Brit. 



Zool. vol. ii. p. 265 (1766). 

 One, Kent : Latham, Synopsis, vol. i. p. 400. 

 One seen near Bridgewater, autumn 1805 : Montagu, Om. 



Diet. Suppl. 1813. 

 One, North Devon, August 1808 : Montagu, op. cit., figured 



in Graves, Brit. Om. vol. i. (1821). 

 One, Cornwall : Monthly Magazine, Dec. 1808. 



* This specimen was forwarded by Mr. Lloyd for my inspection, 

 and to be named, in March 1871. 



t Examples from Scandinavia are said to possess shorter and 

 stouter bUls than those obtained in Central Europe, on which ac- 

 count the two forms have been speciflcaUy separated, though with 

 what justice I am unable to say, not having examined a sufficiently 

 large series. It is possible that this variation may depend upon sex. 

 On this subject the reader may be referred to De Selys Longchamps 

 (Bulletin Acad. Sci. BruxeUes, torn. xi. no. 10), and to Fisher " On 

 the Two Species or Varieties of the Nutcracker " (Zoologist, 1845, 

 p. 1073). Both forms have been procured in this coimtry. 



