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Rh a rare "variety with a white chin, like a chevril Goldfinch," as having been killed at Yarmouth, where the black-chinned variety has also sometimes occurred.

Acanthis cannabina. Linnet.—C. Formerly nested in numbers on North Denes. Great accessions to numbers in October, when thousands are netted and sent to London. The female is generally killed, or saved, with Twites, &c, for shooting matches. Hybrids between the Linnet and Greenfinch have been taken two or three times.

A. linaria. Mealy Redpoll.—F.C. In uncertain numbers visits us with the autumnal inrush. Unusually numerous, autumn of 1893.

A. rufescens. Lesser Redpoll.—C. This species occasionally comes over in great numbers with Linnets, Twites, &c.

A. flavirostris. Twite.—C. In some years arrives in enormous flocks, and annoys the birdcatchers by their persistency in entering the clap-nets. Local, "French Linnet."

Pyrrhula europæa. Bullfinch.—F.C. Relentlessly shot, our market-gardeners assuming it to be unpardonably mischievous in orchards. It is apparently more numerous on the Suffolk side of the district. Local, "Blood-ulf."

P. major. Russian Bullfinch.—A. A male was shot on the Denes near Yarmouth on Jan. 22nd, 1893 (Nor. N.S.). Yorkshire is the only other county in which the Russian Bullfinch has been at present identified.

[P. enucleator. Pine-Grosbeak.—A. A flight supposed to have been seen on the Denes, November, 1822 (vide Paget). Mr. J.H. Gurney thinks this very doubtful.]

Loxia curvirostra. Crossbill.—F. Small flocks occasionally arrive in autumn. Several were seen for several weeks at Somerton and Belton quite into the nesting season. Largest influx for many years past, first week in Aug. 1898, when Lowne had thirty-two in for preservation. Paying great attention to cherry trees and gooseberry bushes. I saw several both "red" and "green." Mr. Dye kept one in a cage six and a half years. A variety of the Crossbill which was erroneously recorded at the time as the Two-barred Crossbill was probably Loxia rubrifasciata.

L. bifasciata. Two-barred Crossbill.—A. On Sept. 1st, 1889, a male example was shot at Burgh Castle, near Yarmouth