48 Birds of Oregon and WasJiington 



Coast Range Mountains in June, 1901. They 

 leave their summer feeding-ground, when severe 

 winters drive them to the open country of west- 

 ern Oregon and Washington, here to thrive upon 

 abundant food which they find in maple tree 

 seeds, etc. The huge size of the bill indicates 

 the use which these birds make of them in crack- 

 ing pine cones. 



Though nesting so far from the habitation of 

 man, they are wondrously tame, as they appear 

 in flocks in our City Parks, and upon our lawns. 

 So friendly already, it is easy to win further their 

 confidence, and induce them to eat out of the 

 hand. A lady of Oregon City, in the winter of 

 1 898-99, succeeded in bringing numbers of these 

 beautiful birds to sit upon her arms, hands and 

 lap. The writer has two pictures of this win- 

 some woman with the Grosbeaks thus confidingly 

 resting upon her person. One of these pictures 

 is given in these pages. In the winter of 

 1900-01 some of the same birds returned 

 after two years* absence, — the identification 

 being established by certain unmistakable marks, 

 like the blindness of one in one eye, and the 

 misshapen leg of another. 



