342 Mr. Joseph I. S. Whitaker on the 
has been kindly sent to me by Dr. Otto Herman, gives some 
interesting particulars regarding the incursion in Hungary. 
After a few remarks of a general character and concerning 
the occurrence of the Crossbill as a resident and breeding 
species in the Carpathian Mountains and in other parts of 
the country, a list is given of the various localities from 
which reports had been received, in response to the in¬ 
vitation which had been issued by the Hungarian Central 
Bureau for Ornithology. From these reports it is evident 
that the recent invasion was on a vast scale in Hungary, 
and that it extended generally throughout the country, 
having commenced in June, reached its height in July, and 
continued until the late autumn. With the exception of a 
single specimen of the Two-barred Crossbill ( L. bifasciata), 
obtained in the district of Arva, and a few other individuals 
of that species reported as having been observed in the 
vicinity of Zotyom, the wanderers appear to have all belonged 
to the common species, L. curvirostra. 
Allusion is made to the scarcity of cones on the pine- and 
fir-trees in Hungary during the past season, and some 
interesting information is given regarding the various sub¬ 
stances, other than such cones, on which the Crossbills had 
been observed feeding. 
From Galicia, Bohemia, Salzburg, the Tyrol, and the Trent 
districts, Crossbills are reported as having been observed as 
more or less plentiful throughout the past summer and 
autumn. In the last-named district the incursion seems to 
have been particularly marked. 
Prof. A. Bonomi, of Bovereto, writing in a local periodical 
last June, reported eight individuals of the species as having 
been seen at Madonna del Monte, near Rovereto, as early as 
May 30, and alluded to the possibility of this being the 
prelude to an abundant passage of the birds. He was not 
wrong, for from that day forward the wandering Crossbills 
continued to arrive in gradually increasing numbers, the 
invasion at last assuming such proportions as to constitute a 
veritable phenomenon. 
In a paper on the subject, dated August the 12th, published 
