LOXIA AMERICANA. 455 



of cedar, nut-pine, and monntain mahogany; while from June to August 

 it was an abundant bird in the pine forests of the AVahsatch and Uintah 

 ranges. In September they w^ere noticed to feed extensively on the finiit 

 of the Cratccgus rivularis, in companj' with the Red-shafted Flicker, Gaird- 

 ner's Woodpecker, the Cedar-bird, and the Cross-bills (Loxia ainericana and 

 L. kucoptcra). 



In its habits this species is almost a perfect counterpart of the eastern 

 r. ruhro, while its song is scarcely distinguishable, being merely of a slightly 

 liner, or more silvery, tone; but the ordinary note, sounding like plit'-it, is 

 very ditlerent from the clup'-a-rd, ree of the eastern species. The note of 

 the young is quite peculiar, being a low whistle, something like the com- 

 plaining call of the Eastern Blue-bird (Sialia sicdis), but louder. 



List of specimens. 



565, S cd-; Tiuckee Reservation, Ma.v 15, 18C8. 7g— ll-,''^— 3:^. Bill, dilute wax- 

 vellow, willj a grecnisb cast, except along commissure, darUer greenish-brown toward 

 tlio culuien, which is dark sepia, with the terminal half sharply, black ; iris, gray ish- 

 brown; tarsi and toes, pale plumbeous, the latter whitish beneath. 



838, ? ad.; East Humboldt Mountains, Nevada, July 13, I8(J8. (Mahogany woods.) 

 7^'^113 — (J) — 31 Upi)er mandible, dark groenish-sepia, the toiniiun and lower man- 

 dible, light greenish-yellow; iris, burnt-umber; tarsi and toes, plumbeous. 



ll,'S3, nest and eggs (3) ; Parley's Park, Wahsatch Mountains, Utah, June lio, 1809. 

 Xest on extreme end of horizontal branch of pine tree in grove. 



137<;, nest and eggs (-) ; Uintah .Mountains, Utah, July 7, 1869. Nest on monnt- 

 ain mahogany tree, near end of horizontal branch. 



FAiiiLY FRIXGILLID J]— Finches, Sparrows, and Buntings. 



LoXIA AMERICANA. 

 Co:ii]nou Crossbill. 



Cin-rirosfra ainericana, Wilhon, Am. Orn., IV, 1811, 44, pi. 31, tigs. 1, 2— Baird, 

 IJ. N. Am., 1»5S, 41.T. ; Catal., 1859, No. 318.— CooPKR, Orn. Cal., I, 148. 



Loxia americana, Bonap., Comp. & Geog. List, 1838, 38. 



jA)xia curi-irostra var. americana, CoUES, Key, 1872, 351 ; Check List, 1873, No. 

 143; B. N.W., 1874, 109— B. B. & R., Hist. N. Am. B , I, 1S74, 484, pi. XXtil, 

 figs. 1, 4.— Hi:NsnAW, 1875, 248. 



The Common Crossbill may breed on the higher portions of the loftier 

 ranges in the Interior, but none were seen by us imtil toward the last of 



