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PYRRHULA EUROPA, Vieillot. 
BULLFINCH. 
Mr. Kermode, in a note to his earliest list, says : ‘ Formerly 
not uncommon about Castletown, but now, I believe, never 
seen.’ 
In 1887, as stated by Mr. C. B. Moffat (Zool., 1903, p. 147), 
one was seen near the Isle of Man Asylum by Mr. H. H. 
Moffat. In June 1885 Mr. Kermode saw two, taken near 
Ramsey, and in February 1899 he received a male in full 
plumage, shot near Ramsey, and which is now in the museum 
at that town. 
The Bullfinch is found all over Ireland except in bare 
districts, and is increasing. It occurs, though not very 
plentifully, in Antrim and Down. It is described as toler- 
ably common and increasing in Kirkcudbrightshire. It is 
resident over north-western England, as in Great Britain 
generally, though seldom or never numerous. A very rare 
straggler to Orkney and Shetland, it is, perhaps not certainly, 
recorded from the Outer Hebrides. 
LOXIA CURVIROSTRA, Linn. CROSSBILL. 
Among birds which had been obtained in the island 
Forbes mentions this species, without giving any further 
particulars. 
In 1889, on 28th August (according to Y. L. M., I. xi. 109, 
24th August), two, adult and immature respectively, were, 
as reported by Mr. Kermode, shot from a flock at Ballakill- 
