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THE BIRDS OF HAMPSHIRE. 
it was killed in the neighbourhood of the New Forest many- 
years ago. Mr. Hart purchased it at his sale in 1876. 
Mr. J. H. Gurney wrote an article on the occurrence of 
this species in Great Britain in the "Zoologist" of 1890, in 
which he remarks that the specimen is among the four most 
authentic examples recorded. He says it was stuffed by 
Barrow, of Christchurch, that Mr. Jenkins is believed to 
have had no foreign skins, and that this one " 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." In the same article he mentions that four 
pine-grosbeaks were received in the flesh by a taxidermist 
at Great Yarmouth, about March ist, 1889, " affirmed to 
have been shot in the Wolmer Forest, Hampshire," but he. 
believer they were sent in ice from Russia ; and Mr. O. V. 
Aplin, writing in the same volume, thinks " there can be no 
doubt" of their foreign origin, having himself received two 
specimens from Leadenhall Market, within a week of the 
same date, which had been sent in a frozen condition from 
Northern Europe. 
Genus — Loxia. 
81. Loxia curvirostra. Crossbill. 
An irregular and uncertain visitor, chiefly between 
midsummer and February, which has frequently nested on 
the mainland. The status of this eccentric bird is most 
difficult to define, and we have quoted the first portion 
of the foregoing sentence from the " Ibis " List of British 
Birds. 
