Massachusetts Audubon Society 



Heywood, Miss Harriet G. 

 Higgins, Mrs. Alice A. 

 Hiler, Mrs. Mary J. 

 Hiler, Miss Grace G. 

 Homans, William P. 

 Hooper, Miss I. R. 

 Howe, Miss Fanny H. Q. 

 Howe, Mrs. Frederick N. 

 Howe, Miss Lizzie M. 

 Howes, Miss Lydia H. 

 Hubbard, Mrs. C. W. 

 Hubbard, Eliot 

 Huston, Mrs. Hannah W. 

 Jack, Carman 

 Jenney, Mrs. Qiarles F. 

 Johnson, Miss Fanny B. 

 Jones, Daniel F. 

 Jones, Daniel F., Jr. 

 MacComiskey, Miss Lenora 

 Nickerson, Mrs. Henry 

 Slocum, Miss Mattie B. 

 Townsend, Miss Annie R. 

 Turner, Miss Mabel E. 



16 Woodland Ave., Gardner 

 73 High St., Newburyport 



17 Alveston St., Jamaica Plain 

 17 Alveston St., Jamaica Plain 



152 Congress St., Boston 

 765 Washington St., Brookline 

 26 Brimmer St., Boston 

 79 Greenwood Ave., Swampscott 

 37 Mechanic St., Orange 

 Bleak House, Dennis 

 Auburndale 

 206 Beacon St., Boston 

 155 Cottage St., New Bedford 



East Walpole 

 100 Gordon Ave., Hyde Park 



7 Commonwealth Ave., Boston 

 195 Beacon St., Boston 

 195 Beacon St., Boston 



Kilby St., Hingham 

 62 Franklin St., Boston 

 Lafayette, R. L 

 9 Irving St., Brookline 

 North Reading 



A NEWFOUNDLAND CROSSBILL 



Friends of the Audubon Society who feed the birds at Hingham and 

 who have had many interesting adventures thereby prize particularly the 

 one with red crossbills. The first of these birds, a female, came to the 

 feeding station February 4th. It was very hungry and also very tame, 

 possibly in part because of the hunger. It allowed itself to be caught and 

 was taken into the house over night where it was sheltered and fed in a box. 

 The next day, the box, bird and all, were put out on the piazza, and the bird, 

 allowed its freedom, flew away. The next morning it stormed and the 

 crossbill was found again in the box, feeding. It was taken into the house 

 and kept there until February 9th. On that day, as the storm had abated, it 

 was put out in the box once more with the door open. Again it flew away. 

 February 10th, about noon, it returned and brought a male bird with it. 

 The male seemed much exhausted and very hungry but did not understand 

 about the box and it was very amusing to see the female shoulder her un- 

 sophisticated mate about until she finally got him into the box where the re- 

 freshments were. The female then followed him in, and both birds were 

 taken into the house, where they were placed in a large breeding cage, for 

 observation. They were evidently mated birds, as they "billed" as pigeons do, 

 and a nest was placed in the cage in the hope that they might make use of it. 

 They were singularly parrot-like in their behavior, climbing the sides of the 

 cage with hooked beak and claws as a parrot does. After a day or two the 

 male bird seemed ill and later died. The female showed signs of grief and of 

 missing her mate and, as the weather was good, was released and has not 

 been seen since. At the Boston Society of Natural History the male bird 

 was declared to be the Newfoundland subspecies of the American crossbill, 

 recognizable by its greater size and especially by its larger beak. The bird 

 has been mounted and placed in a case there. In this process it was dis- 

 covered that the bird died from disease, from which it undoubtedly was 

 suffering when it first came to the feeding station. The body has been for- 



