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October 28). Massachusetts — Waltham, October 16. Connecticut — 

 Hartford, October 2. New York — Cayuga and Oneida Lake basins, 

 October 17 (median of 6 years, November 3). New Jersey — Elizabeth, 

 October 18. Maryland — Allegany County, December 6. Virginia — 

 Back Bay, December 5. North Carolina — Arden, October 29. 



Egg dates. — Alaska: 124 records, April 4 to August 17; 62 records, 

 June 2 to June 19. 



British Columbia: 1 record, May 26. 



Labrador: 13 records, June 9 to July 27. 



Manitoba: 4 records, June 19 to June 29. 



Newfoundland: 4 records, June 1 to June 19. 



ACANTHIS FLAMMEA ROSTRATA (Coues) 



Greater Redpoll* 



Habits 



This is the other large and dark colored redpoll, previously men- 

 tioned as being difficult to recognize in the field. 



It breeds on Baffin Island, Iceland, and in Greenland, where 

 Hagerup (1891) called it the "most numerous of the smaller birds 

 found in the vicinity of Ivigtut." He says further that: "In 1886 it 

 was first observed on May 6, and was common on May 17. On 

 September 24 the majority had migrated southward, though a few 

 were met with now and then during October. * * * 



"In 1887, the first were seen on April 24, and on April 30 a few 

 single individuals, besides three together flying toward west-north- 

 west, about one hundred feet high. On the 6th of May several ap- 

 peared in the valley, and by the 10th of the same month, they were 

 common." 



Of its status on Ungava, Lucien M. Turner says in his unpublished 

 notes: "Rather common in winter. None to be seen from May 15 to 

 September 1 of each j'-ear." 



The greater redpoll ranges southward more or less irregularly in 

 winter to southern Canada and the northern United States, as far 

 west as Manitoba and Montana and as far south as southern New 

 England, Colorado, and northern Illinois. 



Ridgway (1901) describes the greater redpoU as similar to holboelli, 

 "but much larger and with a relatively thicker and more obtuse bill; 

 coloration rather darker and browner, with the dusky stripes on sides 

 and flanks usually heavier and broader; adult male with the pink 

 or red of chest, etc., apparently less extensive as well as less intense." 



*For further details on the life history of the greater redpoll, see Salomonsen 

 (1950)— Editor. 



