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a rare " variety with a white chin, like a chevril Goldfinch," as 

 having been killed at Yarmouth, where the black-chinned variety 

 has also sometimes occurred. 



Acanthis cannabina. Linnet. — C. Formerly nested in num- 

 bers on North Denes. Great accessions to numbers in October, 

 when thousands are netted and sent to London. The female is 

 generally killed, or saved, with Twites, &c, for shooting matches. 

 Hybrids between the Linnet and Greenfinch have been taken two 

 or three times. 



A. linaria. Mealy Redpoll. — F. C. In uncertain numbers 

 visits us with the autumnal inrush. Unusually numerous, autumn 

 of 1893. 



A. rufescens. Lesser Redpoll. — C. This species occasionally 

 comes over in great numbers with Linnets, Twites, &c. 



A. flavirostris. Twite. — C. In some years arrives in 

 enormous flocks, and annoys the birdcatchers by their per- 

 sistency in entering the clap-nets. Local, " French Linnet." 



Pyrrhula europcea. Bullfinch. — F. C. Relentlessly shot, 

 our market-gardeners assuming it to be unpardonably mis- 

 chievous in orchards. It is apparently more numerous on the 

 Suffolk side of the district. Local, "Blood-ulf." 



P. major. Russian Bullfinch. — A. A male was shot on the 

 Denes near Yarmouth on Jan. 22nd, 1893 (Nor. N. S.). York- 

 shire is the only other county in which the Russian Bullfinch has 

 been at present identified. 



[P. enucleator. Pine-Grosbeak.— A. A flight supposed to 

 have been seen on the Denes, November, 1822 (vide Paget). 

 Mr. J. H. Gurney thinks this very doubtful.] 



Loxia curvirostra. Crossbill. — F. Small flocks occasionally 

 arrive in autumn. Several were seen for several weeks at Somer- 

 ton and Belton quite into the nesting season. Largest influx for 

 many years past, first week in Aug. 1898, when Lowne had thirty- 

 two in for preservation. Paying great attention to cherry trees 

 and gooseberry bushes. I saw several both "red" and " green." 

 Mr. Dye kept one in a cage six and a half years. A variety of 

 the Crossbill which was erroneously recorded at the time as the 

 Two-barred Crossbill was probably Loxia rubrifasciata. 



L. bifasciata. Two-barred Crossbill. — A. On Sept. 1st, 

 1889, a male example was shot at Burgh Castle, near Yarmouth 



