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STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE BULLETINS. 



earlier'" (Dr. M. Gibbs); "usually February and March" (Davie, p. 289); nests in 

 trees: eggs three to five, greenish gray, specked with brown; Dr. Atkins reports 

 taking the nest of this bird at Locke; he also states that he has known it to peck 

 holes in apples to secure the seeds. 



Red Crossbill, male and female, reduced. 



222-o22-(19H). Loxia leu^optera Omel. * White-winged Cros.shil,l. 



Often common throughout the Lower Peninsula at least; south only in win- 

 ter; Dr. Atkins reports killing one at Locke, August 9, 1875; "common in Kent 

 Co. in winter and rare summer resident at Mackinac Island " (S. E. White); 

 "uncertain winter visitor at Ann Arbor" (Dr. J. B. Steere); "'a specimen in my 

 collection was taken at Cheboygan in winter" (N. A. Eddy); -'rare at Albion, one 



White-winged Crossbill, reduced. 



taken February 22, 1887" (O. B. Warren); "one pair killed at Plymouth" (J. B, 

 Purdy); "never saw it at Port Sanilac" (W. A. Oidtield); Samuel Spicer, of Gen- 

 esee Co., reports finding one nesting September 28, 1888 (O. and O., p. 4^3, 1889); 

 "Keweenaw Point" (Kneeland); S. E. White finds it in July and August at 



