PINE-GROSBEAK. 



PYRRHULA ENUCL EA TOR {Linn.). 



Loxia enucleator, Linn. S. N. i. p. 299 (1766). 



Pyrrhula enucleator, Naum. iv. p. 403; Macg. i. p. 411 ; 



Hewitson, i. p. 210*; Yarr. ed. 4, ii. p. 177. 

 Pinicola enucleator, Dresser, iv. p. 111. 



Dur-bec vulgaire, French; Fichten-Gimpel, German. 



Although this species has been recorded as having 

 occurred on more than twenty occasions in our country, 

 I find that Professor Newton (Yarrell's • British Birds,' 

 4th ed. vol. ii. p. 177) and Mr. J. H. Gurney ('Zoolo- 

 gist,' 1877) are agreed that not more than five of these 

 records at most are worthy of serious attention. Mr. H. 

 Saunders ('Manual,' p. 191) considers that few even 

 of these sifted records are entitled to acceptance, but 

 does not feel justified in summarily rejecting a bird that 

 has for so long occupied a place in our list. I entirely 

 agree with the last-named author, but go rather further 

 than he does, in looking upon all occurrences of the 

 Pine-Grosbeak in the United Kingdom as " escapes " 

 from captivity. To me the matter of the admission to, 

 or exclusion from, the " British " list of any bird that 



