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falls to the ground is generally eaten by Bohemian Waxwings. Fre- 

 quently they feed together. 

 Cassin's Purple Finch Carpodacus cassini. 



Three winter records. 

 Crossbill Loxia curvirostra minor. 



Common resident; erratic in their appearance. I have shot 

 females in February and in August that were undoubtedly breeding. 

 Gray-crowned Rosy Finch Leucosticte tephrocotis tephrocotis. 

 Hepburn's Rosy Finch Leucosticte tephrocotis UttoraUs. 



Both forms breed above timber line in the Similkameen district 

 and in the Gold Range. Large flocks come into the valley during 

 December and January. Litt oralis is much the more common. 

 Tephrocotis occurs in the flocks in the proportion of one to twenty or 

 thirty. Specimens that are intermediate are common. I have fre- 

 quently seen flocks of three or four hundred suddenly appear and 

 swarm over a bare place on the open range in search of gravel. When 

 disturbed they often circle several times, their undulating flight and 

 soft voices suggesting the shore lark. If birds have been shot out of 

 the flock, the remainder will come back time after time, fluttering to 

 the ground, close to the dead birds. On one occasion, a flock, dis- 

 turbed from an alfalfa field, flew up, in an ever narrowing spiral, for 

 several hundred feet and then closed into a compact flock and flew 

 straight away. 

 Hoary Redpoll Acanthis hornemanni exilipes. 



Rare. One was taken in a flock of linaria on February 24. 1 ( M2, 

 and two specimens taken in December, 1916. 

 Redpoll Acanthis linaria linaria. 



Abundant winter resident. The earliest date seen, November 9, 

 and the latest recorded in the spring, March 30. 

 Pale Goldfinch AstragaUnus tristis pallidas. 



Common resident. 

 Pixe Siskin Spinus pin us. 



Abundant resident. 

 Snow Bunting. 



Abundant winter resident. The earliest record Otcober 15, and 

 the latest February 14. 

 Harris Sparrow Zonotrichia querula. 



One winter record, December 2, 1911. 

 Gambel's Sparrow Zonotrichia leucophrys gambeli. 



Two specimens taken by Allan Brooks, January, 1914. 

 "Western Tree Sparrow Spizella monticola ochracea. 



Regular winter resident. 

 Shifeldt's Junco Junco hyemalis connectens. 



The majority of the winter Juncos appear to be typical connectens. 

 In a series of winter skins sent to Dr. Dwight for identification were 





