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bred freely the following February and March. Ivan Bayley found 

 many ftests. The birds left very suddenly in April, leaving several 

 broods of young. (C. R. Harte.) Usually occur with the American 

 crossbill in Nova Scotia, though in smaller numbers. {H. F. Tufts.) 



Common winter resident at St. John, N.B.; a few breed every 

 spring. (Chamberlain.) On July 24th I observed a flock of eight 

 or ten individuals at Ellis bay, Anticosti. (Brewster.) Seen during 

 the winter at Lake Mistassini, Quebec. (/. M. Macoun.) Common 

 on Grindstone and Entry islands, and probably on other islands 

 of the Magdalen islands. (Bishop.) Common winter visitor at 

 Scotch Lake, York county, N.B., in 1899, previously rare. (W. H. 

 Moore.) A common summer resident in eastern Quebec. (Dionne.) 

 A common but transient visitor at Montreal. I saw a flock of this 

 species feeding on the cones of cedar trees at Hochelaga, Que., on 

 December 8th, 1888. (VVintle.) 



A large flock of this species was seen near Beechwood cemetery, 

 Ottawa, Ont,. in June, 1882. (Ottawa Naturalist, Vol. V.) I saw 

 this bird commonly in the Magdalen islands in the month of June? 

 1897, and have no doubt but that it breeds there in the spruce woods 

 though I could not with certainty locate a nest. In that same year, 

 in the month of April, I saw three of these birds on an island in the 

 St. Lawrence, near Lansdowne, Ont., feeding on some hemlock trees 

 and frequently alighting on the ground in search of hemlock seeds. 

 (Rev. C. J. Yotmg.) Irregular winter resident at Toronto, Ont.; 

 never very common. Not as abundant as the preceding, but found 

 in Parry Sound and Muskoka districts. (/. H. Fleming.) A few 

 seen almost every season, but never really abundant, at Toronto; 

 I found them particularly abundant at Whitney, near Algonquin 

 park, Ont., in the fall of 1898, and fairly so at Kaladar, Addington 

 county, December, 1894. (/. Hughes-Samuel.) An infrequent 

 winter visitor at Guelph, Ont. (A. B. Klugh.) A male and female 

 taken at Fort Churchill, Hudson bay. (Clarke.) 



A winter visitant ; possibly resident and breeding. On December 

 6th, 1882, at the spruce bush, 35° below zero, shot three individuals 

 out of a small flock that was feeding on the cones of a tall spruce. 

 These were all males. (E. T. Seton.) Common at Aweme, Man., 

 in autumn and winter in open woods. (Criddle.) A rare and irre- 

 gular visitor in Manitoba, keeping more to the evergreen woods. 



