CROSSBILL— TIVO-BARRED CROSSBILL. 71 
Mr. Corbin noticed the species at Bournemouth in July, 
1897,^ and again in the same locality in August in the 
following year. They were numerous round Ringwood 
from January to November, 1898, and in other parts of the 
New Forest as well, and no doubt nested in some localities.2 
Mr. Meade-Waldo, writing about 1899, says that they 
arrive in July in most years, sometimes in great numbers. 
In the Isle of Wight, More noticed it at Bembridge in the 
summers of 1849 and 1850, and also near Freshwater, and 
Dr. Cowper speaks of its occurring in winter, but not 
commonly. 
82. Loxia bifasciata. Two-barred Orossbill. 
A very rare accidental visitor. 
Two birds were procured in the Isle of Wight about 
1838, by Mr. Butler, of Yarmouth, "which he supposed to 
be only the common crossbill in one of its many stages of 
plumage, but the conspicuous white bars across the wings 
described by him seemed to decide that they belonged to 
the rarer species." ^ 
It is a native of Northern Russia and Siberia. 
This bird is omitted from Mr. Meade- Waldo's list. 
^"Zoologist." 1897. 
= "Zoologist." 1898. 
3 Bury. "Zoologist." 1844. 
