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Mr. Joseph I. S. Whitaker on the 
end of November he says hardly a day passed without Cross¬ 
bills being observed there. 
Sart he .—According to M. FAbbe Lamoureux, many 
Crossbills were observed in this district on the 8th and 9th 
of July, a single individual of the species on the 20th of 
September, and a few on the 14th of October. 
Vendee. —M. Plocq reports having obtained an example of 
the species near Roche-sur-Yon, and having observed small 
flocks on passage in this district. 
Loir e-Inferieure .—A nephew of Dr. Bureau obtained an 
example out of a small party of the species that had remained 
in the neighbourhood of Birochere, in this district, between 
the 8th and 15th of August. 
The ‘ Revue frangaise d’Ornithologie 9 of Paris very 
sensibly opened an inquiry last autumn regarding the recent 
Crossbill invasion, and collected several interesting notes, 
some of which are comprised in the remarks given above. 
In the January (1910) number of that journal, a copy of 
which has kindly been sent me by M. Louis Denise, M. F. 
Daguin states that Crossbills bad never been so abundant in 
the Cote-d’Or as they were last autumn, and particularly in 
the month of November, when the birds were to be observed 
in large numbers in many localities of this department, and 
particularly in the Chatillon-sur-Seine district. 
M. Lomont reports Crossbills having been seen, in greater 
or lesser numbers, at Manonville, Meurthe-et-Moselle, 
between the 10th of July and the end of September, after 
which date some were again observed on the 10th of October 
and on the 15th of November. 
M. Roger Reboussin mentions having seen a pair of Cross¬ 
bills at Sarge (Loir-et-Cher) on the 13th of November. 
Considerable numbers of the species are also reported as 
having been observed in the neighbourhood of Cette in the 
south of France. 
Belgium .—Crossbills are reported as having been nume¬ 
rous in several parts of this country during the past year, but 
I have no special information on the subject. The species 
