98 BIRDS OF DUMFRIESSHIRE 
and thicker biU as compared to that of the typical continental 
race, does not yet appear to have received tj^^/^^^f .'^'^.'^ 
deseWes at the hands of ornithologists, and its distribution 
is consequently, as has been said above, not accurately 
known. 
[PARROT-CROSSBILL. 
Loxia pytyopsittacus, Borkhausen. 
F 0 Morris records one occurrence of the Parrot-Crossbill 
in Dumfriesshire,* which Mr. J. E. Harting who most 
kindly wrote to me on the subject, does not see fit to mclude 
among the list of the occurrences of this bird m C^reat 
Britain ; t m view of which I include this species m square 
brackets.] 
THE TWO-BARRED CROSSBILL. 
Loxia hifasciata (C. L. Brehm). 
Has occurred once. 
Mr Hugh Mackay in 1893 drew attention to a pair of 
Two-barred Crossbills thus : "I am indebted to Mr. Henry 
Martin of Dardarroch, for the following note, and 
although it is three years since the specimens were ob- 
tained, they were not recorded, and are therefore worthy 
of mention here. He informed me that on the 1st of March 
1890 three specimens of the American White-wmged 
Crossbill were observed in Dardarroch Woods, a male 
and female of which he shot, and are now in his collection 
I doubted his statement at first, and remarked that it 
might be the Two-barred Crossbill, which in appearance 
is much similar to the American species, but he assured me 
* Morris, Hist. Brit. Birds, 1870, Vol. III., p. S. 
t Handbook British Birds, 1901, pp. 381, 382. 
