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Excerpt from Birds on the British List: Their Title to Enrollment Considered, Especially With Reference to the British Ornithological Union's List of British Birds; With a Few Remarks Upon 'Evolution,' and Notes Upon the Rarer Eggs
Still more surprising is it that certain birds should have been mentioned, even for rejection, upon what seems an authoritative list of our birds: as the Nonpareil Finch (cyanospiza Ciris), which has been brought over almost in ¿ocks from America; and of which probably many have escaped from the dealers' shops; the only reason for its record may be its early occurrence in the Century when perhaps it may not have been SO common an introduction as it is now. The Mocking Bird also is printed only to be justly dismissed in the brief words Specimens imported in cages occasionally escape, but there is no authentic instance of this North American Bird having occurred wild in Europe.
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