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time and leave for the north about the middle of May." Mr. Charles 

 Pury informed me they were abundant at Michigan City, Ind., one win- 

 ter, which he thinks was 1885. He also reported Pine Finches and Red- 

 polls from the same locality the same year. Prof. B. W. Evermann re- 

 ported it from Carroll County, Ind., March 27. 1885. I am indebted to 

 Mr. E. M. Kindle for the information that Mr. Sam Hunter reported a 

 pair of American Crossbills to have bred at Bloomington. Ind. in 1885. 

 Mr. Hunter informed him they nested in a pine tree and that the nest 

 was made exclusively of pine burrs. Mr. R. R. Moffitt informs me that 

 Red Crossbills were taken in Tippecanoe County, Ind., in 1885. He says 

 they nested there. Prof. B. W. Evermann noted them at Camden, Ind., 

 March 27 and April 13, 1885, also a large flock at Burlington, Ind., April 

 23, 1885. 



Mr. Wm. Brester reported it?- occurrence in the mountains of Western 

 North Carolina in the summer of 1S85 (The Auk., Vol. III., p. 107) and 

 says : " .Seen only on the Black Mountains where it was numerous in 

 small flocks throughout the balsam forests above 5.000 feet. At High- 

 lands I was told that it regularly appeared in winter about the outskirts 

 of the town." Mr. Charles W. Richmond (The Auk., Vol. V., p. 22), gives 

 upon the authority of Mr. Hugh M. Smith, the information that an adult 

 male American Crossbill, accompanied by a young bird, was seen May 17, 

 1885, within the District of Columbia. Prof. L. L. Dyche reports the 

 occurrence, in the winter of 1885-6 of the Western Red Crossbill, Loxia 

 cwrviroslra stricklandi, at Lawrence, Emporia, Manhattan and Wakarusa, 

 Kan. They were first observed November 1, 1885, and were last seen 

 January 26, 1886 (The Auk., Vol. III., pp. 258-2(11). The following winter 

 I was fortunate in securing, through the kindness of Mr. A. O. Garrett, a 

 series of specimens of Loxia currirostra minor from Lawrence, Kan. March 

 13 and 14, 1SS7. he obtained four which he sent me, and later he sent me 

 nine others which were taken March 24 and 25. The meeting of the 

 range of these two forms is of considerable interest. Prof. B. W. Ever- 

 mann reports a crossbill, species not determined, from Bloomington, Ind.. 

 February 23, 1886, and another March 8, 1886. The same authority states 

 thelateMr.C.Il. Bollman found a few specimens of the Red Crossbill 

 near Bloomington, Ind., July 10, 13 and 14,188(1. Mr. Arthur P. Chad- 

 bourn says, in the summer of 188(3 it was found in the White Moun- 

 tains, N. H. (The Auk., Vol. IV., p. 105). Mr. George B. Sennett, in 

 the same volume, p. 242, gives an account of finding this species in 



