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which live on nuts and hard seeds, it lives mostly on insects ; even in a 

 cage it will not thrive unless it gets a change from seeds to soft food, such 

 as eggs, meat, bread and milk, etc. But his beautiful song will fully 

 repay any one who will take the trouble to find proper food for him. 



This bird effectually extirpates the Colorado potato beetle, if the 

 potatoes are planted near the woods. The young are all alike in the 

 brown streaky plumage, except that the males have the under wing 

 coverts red and the females have them yellow. This mark distin- 

 guishes them at all ages. The late young do not shed their feathers be- 

 fore leaving, and the young males arrive the next spring in dress like that 

 of tlie female, except that there is a little red on the breast. The full 

 black male plumage is not obtained till he is tliree years old, and one 

 might get twenty-four birds in different intermediate stages without 

 seeing two just alike. This species moults twice each year, in spring and 

 in fall. — W. A. Schoenau, Mildmay, Bruce, Ont., 1885. 



38. Junco hymelis, Pinicola enucleator, Acanthis linaria.— On 

 Januaiy 29, I shot one Junco and one Redpoll and two male pine Gros- 

 beaks ; the stomachs of the latter were full of seeds of the black ash. On 

 February 13, I saw a female pine Grosbeak feeding on the cones of a tam- 

 arack tree. 



39. Pinicola enucleator. — On January 26, I saw a female Pine 

 Grosbeak, and wounded it but did not secure it. On February 7, I 

 was passing the same place and I shot a female Pine Grosbeak, and 

 on examining it I found it was the specimen I had wounded on January 

 26, and the bird was just on the mend when I shot it, and seemed in 

 good condition, the stomach containing a few black ash seeds. — Jas. A. 

 Vakley. 



40. Lanius borealis. — On February 10, I found a dead specimen of 

 the Northern Shrike. It was lying beside a fence in Rosedale, where 

 it had evidently been dropped by the shooter as he was climbing 

 the fence, as there was no shot in the fence over where it lay. — Jas. li. 

 Thurston. 



41. Loxia leucoptera at Toronto. — On February 8, 1 received 

 one male White-winged Crossbill, shot at Toronto. 



42. Pinicola enucleator capture. — On February 11, I captured a 

 female Pine Grosbeak with a snare on a pole, for which exploit one of her 

 companions gave me a noisy scolding. I have seen flocks of these birds 

 on Huron, Baldwin and McCaul streets, where they have stripped the 

 mountain ash of their berries. — Wm. Cross. 



