PARROT CROSSBILL. 
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The Parrot Crossbill, Loxia pittyopsit- 
tacus, Beohstein. — Loxia pittyopsittacus, Becli- 
stein, SfC. — Parrot Crossbill of British authors . — ■ 
The Parrot Crossbill was first noticed as British 
by Mr Pennant. It was more recently figured 
by Mr Selby in his Illustrations of Ornithology, 
and Mr Yarrell has given notices of several 
instances of its capture in England, and states 
that last year specimens were brought for sale to 
the London market. The specimen figured by 
Mr Selby, with another procured along with it, 
are the only instances we are acquainted with of 
its occurrence in Scotland. These specimens 
were obtained by Mr Ross, gunmaker, Edin- 
burgh, from Ross-shire, so far as we can recollect, 
from the property of Sir Francis Mackenzie of 
Garloch. One of them came into my possession, 
and served for the figure and description given 
by Mr Selby. The other was for a time lost 
sight of, but Mr Ross afterwards recovered pos- 
session, and it is now in Mr Selby’s collection. 
The locality of the specimen in the Edinburgh 
Museum can scarcely now be authenticated. It 
does not yet seem to have occurred in Ireland. 
According to Temminck, it only partially and 
occasionally visits Holland and France, is pro- 
bably still more rare in Southern Europe, and 
is said by the ornithologists of the north to 
increase in numbers in that direction, being 
resident and breeding. It is not acknowledged 
