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any trees, a curious place for this dweller among forests ; possibly 

 it may have escaped from captivity — a supposition which is 

 favoured by its yellow plumage. In the Zoological Gardens, 

 Regent's Park, there have been several in captivity. 



32. Mr. Edward Hart has been good enough to submit for 

 examination a male Pine Grosbeak killed many years ago in the 

 New Forest. It was stuffed by Barrow, of Christchurch, and 

 afterwards passed to Mr. H. Jenkins, who is no longer living, but 

 is believed to have had no foreign skins, and Mr. Hart's bird 

 certainly looks as if it had been mounted from the flesh at a time 

 when bird-stuffing was not the advanced art which it is at the 

 present day. 



33. About March 1st, 1889, a taxidermist at Great Yarmouth 

 received four Pine Grosbeaks in the flesh, affirmed to have been 

 shot in the Wolmer Forest, Hampshire. Probably either a trick 

 had been attempted by the sender, or an unconscious mistake 

 made; and instead of having been killed in Hampshire, very 

 likely they were sent in ice from Russia, as happened a few years 

 ago when some of these birds were sent in a frozen state to the 

 principal poulterer at Brighton. 



34. In the Natural History Museum at South Kensington 

 may be seen a male and female Pine Grosbeak labelled "Norfolk," 

 which probably came from a notably unreliable birdstuffer named 

 Hubbard, now deceased. But, from whatever source received, 

 there is no evidence whatever to support the statement that these 

 two birds were procured in Norfolk. 



35. Mr. J. G. Millais has shown me a Pine Grosbeak, said to 

 have been killed by a gardener at Beccles, in Suffolk, and given 

 to him by a tailor at Lowestoft named Freeman. Mr. Crowfoot, 

 of Beccles, has endeavoured to ascertain more about it, but 

 without success, and were it not that its owner has implicit 

 belief in the statement made to him concerning it, I confess 

 I should feel much doubt about it. It seems clear that it cannot 

 be identical with either of the other specimens reported from 

 Suffolk, and it should be remembered how often mistakes are 

 made without the slightest intention to deceive. 



36. Lastly, some reference should be made to a Pine Gros- 

 beak, a red male, affirmed to have been shot at Powderham, in 

 Devonshire, and stuffed by a gardener named Major, since dead. 

 Without any evidence one way or the other, I may simply state 



