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A cross-bill (Loxia curvirostra) was killed last year in 
this neighbourhood.^ 
Our streams, which are small_, and rise only at the end of 
the village, yield nothing but the bulFs head or miller^ s 
thumb [Gobius fluviatilis ca-pitatus) , the trout {Trutta 
CROSSBILL. 
fluviatilis) J the eel {Anguilla) , the lampern {Lampetra 
parva et fluviatilis) ^ and the stickle-back {Pisciculus 
aculeatus) ."^ 
We are twenty miles from the sea, and almost as many 
^ In the fourth A^olume of the " Zoological Journal," and subsequently 
in the second volume of his " History of British Birds," Mr. Yarrell 
published an excellent account of the muscles by which the singular 
beak and tongue of the cross-bill are made to serve the peculiar 
purposes for which they are designed. — Ed. 
^ These names were derived from Ray's " Synopsis Avium et Piscium.*' 
The more modern nomenclature, as adopted by Yarrell in his " History 
of British Fishes," is as follows : — The river bull-head or miller s -thumb, 
Cottus gobio ; the trout, Salmo fario ; of eel three species are admitted 
by Yarrell as indigenous to this country, the Sharp -nosed, Anguilln 
acutirostris, the Broad-nosed, A. latirostris^ and the Snig, A. mediorostris ; 
but the first and third are now regarded as identical, whilst the second 
is as much a marine as a fresh-water species ; the Lampern, Petromyzon 
fluviatilis; and the Common Stickleback (there are several species), 
Gasterosteus aculeatus. — Ed. 
