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to bring that list up to date. My additions will bring the total 

 up to thirty-six. Of these probably the most authentic specimens 

 are No. 5, in Mr. A. Backhouse's possession, obtained sixty years 

 ago or more (Zool. 1877, p. 244) ; No. 12, Yarrell's, also shot 

 about sixty years ago, though Prof. Newton considers (Yarrell's 

 Brit. Birds, 4th ed. ii. p. 179) that doubt may be reasonably enter- 

 tained about it;* No. 27, in the Whitby Museum, shot out of a 

 flock near Whitby, by Mr. Kitching in the winter of 1861, and 

 No. 32, Mr. Edward Hart's specimen, procured in the New 

 Forest. The first two of these were described in my former 

 article (I. c), the last two will be noticed in the present com- 

 munication. 



But because these four are believed to be authentic, it does 

 not follow that the others are not so. Possibly some of them are 

 to be relied on; but, in my judgment, Nos. 28, 30, 33, 34, 35, 36, 

 are probably cases of mistaken locality, and Nos. 26, 29, of 

 mistaken identity. 



26. Mr. G. Muirhead, in his ' Birds of Berwickshire,' reviewed 

 in the current number of * The Zoologist/ states that the Pine 

 Grosbeak is recorded by Dr. K. D. Thomson, in the ' New 

 Statistical Account of Scotland.' Dr. Robert Thomson, F.R.S., 

 died in 1864, and the occurrence referred to must have taken 

 place more than thirty years previously. 



27. In Messrs. Clarke and Roebuck's useful * Vertebrate 

 Fauna of Yorkshire,' mention is made, on the authority of 

 Mr. Thomas Stephenson, of a Pine Grosbeak in the Whitby 

 Museum, which was shot about 1861, in the winter, by Mr. G. 

 Kitching, the same person who on another occasion got a Crested 

 Titmouse (Zool. 1872, p. 3021). Mr. Stephenson says it was shot 

 at Little beck, five miles from Whitby, a locality abounding with 

 plantations of larch and fir, and adds that Mr. Kitching at the 

 same time shot four others. These he preserved as skins, but 

 they have been since unfortunately lost sight of, and are probably 

 not now in existence. Mr. Stephenson and Mr. J. Wilson, after 



* This doubt applies not to Yarrell's specimen shot at Harrow-on-the- 

 Hill, and now in Bond's collection (torn. cit. p. 177 ; Zool. 1877, p. 246 ; 

 1889, p. 414), but to the specimen stated by Fox (Synops. Newc. Mus. p. 05) 

 to be in his possession " through the favour of Mr. Yarrell," and believed to 

 have been procured at Welwyn, in Hertfordshire. — 'Ed. 



