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 iu 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 ' Christinas T r e e a l s o at Moidden Rectory, near Am])thill,
Bedfordshire, as Mr. Foster-Melliar has informed me. On one occasion
they have been known to breed near Oxford. A specimen was
caught in a common bird-trap at Swanscomhe, in Kent, in the winter
of 1847.
At Windsor, and at Bradficld, near Reading, Berkshire, it remains
throughout the year, as the Rev. Thomas Stevens, of that place, told
me, and Wythain; two were shot at Tilehurst, in July, 1862, and obligingly
forwarded to me by William liewett, Esq., of Reading, and
has also been known to breed regularly in the grounds of Lord Clifden,
at Roehampton, Surrey, and near Tenterden, Bexley, Dartford,
.Maidstone, and Penshurst, in Kent. It has also been seen in Badminton
Park, Gloucestershire, the seat of his Grace the Duke of
Beaufort, also at Bristol, one in the middle of the city, in a
garden, Christmas I 8 6 0 ; at Tring and Berkhampstead, in Hertfordshire;
Chipping Norton, in Oxfordshire; Goodwood and Rye, in
Sussex, in plenty near the latter in 1849; four were procured at
East Grinstead, likewise the nest and eggs, as William Yates, Esq. has
informed me; also near Wolverhampton, in Staffordshire. Selbornc,
iu Hampshire; Repton and Melbourne, in Derbyshire; Taverham, where
one was taken alive in a pigeon-house, and Yarmouth, Norfolk; Ormskirk,
in Lancashire; and once at Wbodside, near Carlisle, in Cumberland;
also occasionally in Shropshire, Dorsetshire, Durham, Devonshire,
Cornwall, one in the parish of Constautine in April, 1856, as others
previously in the same county, and Cambridgeshire.
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 Milltown, in the county of Kerry, at the
end of October, 1830; and during the winter of 1844 the species was
obtained in different parts of that county; but in the Phcenix 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 whiter.
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