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LOXIA LEUCOPTERA (Gmel.). 
White-winged Crossbill—Reported quite abundant around Chicago in 
the past two weeks. (Ruthven Deane, in Epist. 11-26-99.) 
Reported from near Richmond, where a male was seen May 1, 1899, 
by Joseph F. Honecker. 
A male was found dead beneath the electric wires at Greensburg, 
Indiana, November 7, 1899, by a little colored boy, who brought it to Prof. 
Geo. L. Roberts, in whose collection it now is. Upon investigation, a few 
minutes thereafter, Professor Roberts found six or eight others among the 
maple trees in a yard near by. 
ECTOPISTES MIGRATORIUS (LINN.). 
Passenger Pigeon.—Six were seen July 10, 1899, at St. Peters, Franklin 
County, Indiana; also found four nests near Oak Forest, Indiana. 
October 23, 1898, a flock of sixty-eight was seen near Springfield in 
the same county. (Jos. F. Honecker.) 
One mounted by Beasley & Parr, of Lebanon, was killed by Frank 
Young, Willson P. O., Shelby County, Indiana, near that place, about 
September 24, 1898. It was in company with two doves in a patch of wild 
hemp when found. The specimen is in the possession of W. I. Patterson, 
Shelbyville, Indiana. 
Joseph F. Honecker has reported these birds several times from the 
vicinity of Oak Forest, Franklin County. Under date of July 13, 1898, 
he says: 
“On June 15, 1898, I found a place where about forty wild pigeons 
were roosting in a woods about one-half mile from Oak Forest, Franklin 
County, Indiana. The owner of the woods informed me that the pigeons 
stayed there for the last three years, roosting on a maple tree which was 
blown down by a severe wind storm June 28 1898. The pigeons are, I 
think, staying in that same woods yet, but where I am unable to find out. 
The pigeons are breeding in the woods, as I found fourteen nests with 
nestlings. This is the third flock of wild pigeons I have seen in this county 
in the last five years.” 
STERNA TSCHEGRAVA (LEPECH). 
Caspian Tern.—Mr. J. Grafton Parker, Jr., reports the identification of 
