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The song, a sweet warble, like that of Carpodacus purpureus, 

 but softer and with not so much carrying power, fitted in well 

 with the babblings of dozens of little brooks carrying away the 

 melted-snow water. The ordinary call-note was a single dull 

 note, not at all metallic. Frequently I found the birds feeding 

 on the ground in the shelter of the low pines, in company with 

 various sparrows. 



14. Carpodacus mexicanus frontalis (Say). — House Finch. 

 One immature male, February 26. One flock of about twenty- 

 five frequented the edge of town and had probably been there 

 all winter. Sometimes there were pine siskins and cassin 

 finches with them. Usually I found them feeding on the 

 ground and they would fly up on my approach to light either 

 in a brush-pile or on a low tree. 



15. Loxia curvirostra stricklandi Ridgw. — Mexican Cross- 

 bill. Seven males, adult and immature, February 26 ; March 

 2, two; March 8, two; March 17, two. Two adult females, 

 February 26, March 17. The males are variously intermediate 

 between the golden and the full red plumage, while one of the 

 females is much brighter than the others, having traces of 

 orange on the sides of the breast and the rump. Of the nine 

 specimens before me, six have the mandible crossed to the 

 left and three to the right. These birds were common in the 

 pines and were evidently breeding, though no nests were found. 

 The last of June I saw them feeding young birds near the 

 Anita copper-mine, about forty-five miles north of Williams. 

 They were feeding, in the spring, on the pine-cones. They 

 were very wild and erratic in their movements, and so were 

 hard to get. Frequently I saw them flying over, high in the air, 

 giving their steely kimp, kimp. Early one frosty morning a 

 male was found sitting in the top of a dead tree in the sun, 

 preening his feathers. A little brook of snow-water that ran 

 through the pines near Rollins Lake was a favorite place with 

 them for drinking and bathing. 



16. Spinus pinus (Wiis.) — Pine Siskin. Four males, adult 

 and immature, February 24 ; February 26 ; and March 25, two ; 

 March 25, two adult females. There is considerable difference 

 in definiteness of the streaks on the under parts and also 

 in the color of the specimens. In some the colors are very 

 clear, with sharply marked streaks on the under parts, but in 

 others the colors, especially on the under parts, are duller, with 



