single Crossbill. I showed some of our birds to the 

 country people, to whom they were quite unknown. 

 Yesterday I arrived at home here, where I have an 

 extensive pleasure-ground, and my chasseur brought 

 to me fourteen Loxice killed in this demesne on the 

 previous evening. This is most remarkable, because in 

 all the country-side in which I now am the bird was 

 absolutely unknown." 



In this connection I may mention that during the 

 late summer of 1889 I received information of the very 

 unusual abundance of Crossbills in the neighbourhood 

 of Seville, Gibraltar, and Malaga. 



