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at Iron Mountain and north, where I think it breeds" (E, E. BrewBter); I was 

 surprised to find but one in the large collection of Mr. Levi Broas, made in the 

 northern part of Ionia Co. 



Genus CARPODACJUS Kaup. 



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Purple Finch, male, reduced. 



220-51 7(194.) t'arpodacus imrjuireus (GmeL). * Purple. Finch. 



Rather common; throughout the state; flocks; usually a migrant; occasional in 

 summer; " only a migrant at Ann Arbor " (Dr. J. B. Steere); F. L. Washburn 

 reported a flock at Ann Arbor May 24 (The Auk, Vol. VI, p. 279); " not known in 

 Kalamazoo in summer'" (Dr. M. Gibbs); "Hillsdale and Lenawee Counties" (A. H. 

 Boies); "does not breed at Plymouth" (J. B. Purdy); "rare in Wayne Co." (B. H. 

 Swales); "taken at Heisterman's Island in fall, and have found it common op main 

 land at Bay Port in summer months" (N. A. Eddy); "breeds abundantly at Macki- 

 nac Island" (S. E. White); "Keweenaw Point" (Kneeland); '"rare at Iron Mount- 

 ain" (E. E. Brewster); occasionally breeds; nests in May. in trees, often close by 

 houses; Mr. Howard B. Baker knew it to nest in an evergreen close by his father's 

 house in Lansing; eggs four to five, very light dull green, speckled with dark 

 spots; sweet singer. , 



Genus LOXIA Linn. 

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221-521-(199). Loxia cui'virostra minor (Brehm). * American Crossbill; Red 

 Crossbill. 



Often very common; throughout the Southern Peninsula at least; winter; Novem- 

 ber to May; occasional in summer; "irregular at Ann Arbor" (Dr. J. B. Steere); "only 

 in winter and spring at Plymouth" (J. B. Purdy); "not common in Lenawee and 

 Hillsdale Counties " (A. H. Boies); " common in Grand Traverse Co." (M. L. Leach); 

 "very common at Iron Mountain, think it breeds" (E. E. Brewster); F. M. Fal- 

 coner reports it from Hillsdale in March and April, where a nest was found by 

 Mr. Hempel, March 24, 1892, in a spruce, twenty feet from the ground, and one 

 egg taken; "common at Palmer, Marquette Co., and in early spring at Albion" (O. 

 B. Warren); "not seen at Bay City but taken in winter in Roscommon Co." (N. A. 

 Eddy); " summer resident at Mackinac Island, where it breeds '' (S. E. White); 

 "Keweenaw Point'" (Kneeland); breeds north; "I think it nests in March or 



