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stick to drive it out.’ Two or three have been shot at dotting 
Hill, near London; one near Esher, Surrey. N. Bowe, Esq., 
of Worcester College, Oxford, says that he has been informed 
that this species is common in Stowe Park, Buckinghamshire, 
the seat of His Grace the Duke of Buckingham; and James 
Dalton, Esq., of Worcester College, Oxford, has informed me 
that it breeds there, as it also does in Epping Forest, in 
considerable numbers, and at Walthamstow, in Essex, and 
the neighbourhood of Woburn, in Bedfordshire, as Mr. G. B. 
Clarke, of that place, writes me word; but he says that they 
are there most seen in the winter, when they come to feed 
on the seeds of the hawthorn and the holly, their ‘Christmas 
Tree.’ On one occasion they have been known to breed near 
Oxford. 
At Windsor, and at Bradfield, near Beading, Berkshire, it 
remains throughout the year, as the Bev. Thomas Stevens, 
of that place, told me, and has also been known to breed 
regularly in the grounds of Lord Clifden, at Boehampton, 
and near Tenterden, Bexley, Dartford, Maidstone, and Pens- 
hurst, in Kent. It has also been seen in Badminton Park, 
Gloucestershire, the seat of His Grace the Duke of Beaufort; 
Tring and Berkhampstead, in Hertfordshire; Chipping Norton 
and Wytham, in Oxfordshire; Goodwood and Bye, in Sussex, 
in plenty near the latter in 1849. Selborne, in Hampshire; 
Bepton and Melbourne, in Derbyshire; Taverham, where one 
was taken alive in a pigeon-house, and Yarmouth, Norfolk; 
Ormskirk, in Lancashire; and once at Woodside, near Carlisle, 
in Cumberland; also occasionally in Gloucestershire, Shrop¬ 
shire, Dorsetshire, Devonshire, Cornwall, Suffolk, and Cam¬ 
bridgeshire. 
In Ireland, a few have been met with in various parts; 
at Hillsborough and Tollymore Park, the seat of Lord Boden, 
in the county of Down; at Cittadella and Ardrum, in the 
county of Cork, the former in the winter of 1844; near Mill- 
town, in the county of Kerry, at the end of October, 1880; 
and during the winter of 1844, the species was obtained in 
different parts of that county; but in the Phoenix Park, near 
Dublin, where the hawthorn trees are both among the finest 
and in the greatest numbers that I have ever seen, they 
appear to be procurable in small numbers every winter. 
In Scotland, one or two have been killed in Dumfriesshire. 
In Orkney and Shetland it appears to be unknown. 
It is with us both a permanent resident and an occasional 
