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birds are the Pine Grosbeak ( Pinicola Enucleator), a rare visitor 
in some years, but in severe winters it comes to us in considerable 
numbers, being met with, not only in our woods, but sometimes ven- 
turing fearlessly, as I have said, into the streets and squares of our 
towns. They occasionally do a good deal of mischief to the young 
buds of both fruit and ornamental trees. 
During a very severe winter many years ago these birds came into 
my own grounds int great numbers. Observing that wherever any 
withered apples were left banging on the trees in the orchard they 
were eagerly attacked and torn to pieces by the Grosbeaks, appa- 
rently for the sake of the seeds, I had a quantity of apples cut 
up and and strewed on the steps of the verandah of the house, and 
before long 1 had as many as ten or a dozen of these beautiful birds 
feeding at the same time, and so tame and fearless did they become, 
that they would allow the members of the family to watch them 
from the windows. They did not, however, always content them- 
selves with the food thus provided for them, but did a good deal of 
mischief that winter to the young buds of the cherry and apple as 
well as many of the ornamental trees. They leave us generally 
about the end of March. 
The Bohemian Wax-Wing (Ampelis Garrulus), is another rare 
winter visitor only appearing in seasons when extreme cold has 
driven it down from more northern latitudes. In plumage it re- 
sembles very closely the Ampelus Cedrorum, the Cedar Bird, com- 
mon Wax-wing, or Cherry Bird, so well known, as an active depre- 
dator in our gardens and orchards. The Bohemian Wax-Wing, 
however, is considerably larger and the colouring of the plumage, 
though very similar, is richer and deeper. It has the same curious 
horny tips like red sealing wax on the secondaries of the wings. 
The Crossbills, both the Red Crossbill (Loxia Curvicostra Ameri- 
cana), and the White-winged (Loxia Leucoptera ), have been classed 
as winter visitors only in Ontario, and so has that elegant little bird 
the Pine Finch (Chrysomitris Pinus). I have met with all three; 
however, in the neighbourhood of Lake Simcoe during the summer, 
and the Crossbills undoubtedly breed in the pine and Hemlock 
woods and may be seen there all throughout the year. 
The last of our winter visitors that I shall notice is the Shore 
Lark, Hremophila Alpestris. Speaking from my own experience, it 
is not often met with in this part of Ontario, though it is found 
