LOXIA AMERICANA. 455 



of cediir, nut-pine, und mountain mahogany; while from June to August 

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

 ranges. In September they were noticed to feed extensively on the fruit 

 of the Cratmgus rividaris, in company with the Red-shafted Flicker, Cnurd- 

 ner's AVoodpecker, the Cedar-bird, and the Cross-bills {Loxia amerkana and 

 L. Icucopfera). 



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

 P. ruhra, while its song is scarcely distinguishable, being merely of a slightly 

 hucr, or nioi-e silvery, tone; l)ut the ordinary note, sounding like jiUt'-it, is 

 very dilferent from the chqi'-a-r<i, >re of the eastern species. The note of 

 the young is quite pecvdiar, being a, low whistle, somethiug like tlie com- 

 plaining call of the Eastern Blue-bird {Skdia sialis), but louder. 

 List of specimens. 



505, S cd.; Tiuckee Reservation, May 15, ISGS. 7§— 11 x^s— 3^. Bill, dilute wax- 

 yellow, wit-L a greenish cast, except along commissure, darker greetiisbbrowu toward 

 the culmen, which is dark sepia, with the terminal half sharply, black; iris, grayish- 

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



838, ? ad.; Bast Humboldt Mountains, Nevada, July 13, 1808. (Mahogany woods.) 

 7§_l]a_( ? )_3j. Upper mandible, dark greenish-sepia, the tomium and lower man- 

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



1283, nest and eggs (3) ; Parley's Park, Wahsatch Mountains, Utah, June 25, 1809. 

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



1370, nest and eggs (■.^0 ; Uintah Mountains, Utah, July 7, 1809. Nest on mount- 

 ain mahogany tree, near end of horizontal branch. 



Family FRINGILLID.^^— Finches, Sparrows, and Buntings. 

 Loxia Americana. 



Couimoii Crossbill. 



Ciirvirostm onicricam, WiLt^ON, Am. Orn., IV, 1811, 14, pi. 31, figs. I, 2.— Baiud, 

 B. N. Am., 1858, 420 ; Catal., 1859, No. 318.— Cooper, Orn. Cal., I, US. 



Loxia americana, Bonap., Com p. & Geog. List, 1838, 38. 



Loxia curvirostra var. americana, CouES, Key, 1872, ,351 ; Check List, 1873, No. 

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

 figs. 1, 4.— HensHAW, 1875, 248. 



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

 ran"-es in the Interior, but none were seen by us until toward the last of 



