168 Trans. Acad. Sci. of St. Louis. 



Georgia and from Michigan and Wisconsin northward to Nova 

 Scotia and westward through Athabasca and Saskatchewan to 

 western Alaska and southward through Pacific coast districts 

 to western Oregon. In winter irregularl}^ southward as far 

 south as Louisiana, South Carohna, casually to the Bermudas. 



In Missouri a sometimes common but irregular transient and 

 winter visitant, appearing in November and disappearing in 

 May, oftenest met with from February 22 to April 1 and about 

 the middle of November. Once seen in summer at Old Orchard. 

 They move in small flocks and are attracted to our parks and 

 gardens by the ornamental pines, chiefly Pinus austriaca, 

 the seeds of which they like very much. They also eat apples 

 left on trees, feed on buds of Elms, seeds of Ambrosia trifida, 

 etc. Their occurrence is reported from all parts of the state. 

 Four males and one female w^re taken at St. Joseph, December 

 26, 1894, by Mr. S. S. Wilson.' Mr. Chas. Tindall says they are 

 sometimes common at Independence. Dr. A. F. Eimbeck 

 observed them on different occasions at New Haven, October 

 5 to 16, 1903. Five w^ere shot from a flock of fifteen February 17, 

 1889, near Keokuk; Mr. Chas. K. Worthen took this and the 

 White-winged Crossbill at Warsaw, 111. Mr. E. Seymour 

 Woodruff saw Crossbills in Shannon Co., April 3, 1907, and heard 

 them again April 4. On May 5 he writes: "Small numbers are 

 seen or heard every few days. Last seen May 1st. Their 

 organs show no signs of any possibility of breeding for some time 

 to come." 



522. LoxiA LEUCOPTERA Gmel. White-winged Crossbill. 



Curvirostra leucoptera. 



Geog. Dist. — Coniferous forests of northern North America, 

 south to Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick, Maine, New 

 Hampshire (White Mountains), New York (Adirondacks), 

 Mackinac Lsland ; in winter irregularly as far south as Washing- 

 ton, D. C, Cincinnati, IndianapoHs, Bloomington, Ind., southern 

 Illinois, Kansas, Colorado, Nevada, British Columbia etc., 

 also to Greenland and western Europe, 



There is little doubt that careful search will bring to light its 

 presence in Missouri during its extensive wandering in winter. 

 Mr. Chas. K. Worthen took several out of a small fiock on the 

 Mississippi bluffs near Warsaw opposite the northeastern corner 

 of Missouri and an adult male was taken November 4, 1899, 



