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bers as they have been this year. He also adds that he has not 

 seen them until this winter since they appeared in 1S72 or 1S73. 

 My series of specimens from Yemassee embraces twenty-nine 

 examples, representing every stage of variation. 



Since writing the foregoing I visited Yemassee again, and on 

 April 1, 1SS7, one of my collectors shot thirteen specimens; on 

 April 2 I shot a single specimen ; again on April 4 my collector 

 brought me ten specimens. The number of specimens killed in 

 April was about thirty, as several were thrown away being in 

 poor plumage. 



I visited Yemassee again in May and found the Crossbills still 

 there, but not in such numbers as in April. My collector brought 

 me a female on May 6, and a male on May 19. These two spec- 

 imens were the only ones taken in May. The Crossbills were 

 seen for the last time on May 22, but I am under the impression 

 that some of them remained until the first of June, when they all 

 left for their breeding grounds in the mountains: 



I am positive that none of the Crossbills bred at Yemassee, as 

 the ovaries in the females were about the size of No. 10, shot in 

 April and May and all the previous months. 



The Crossbills were not confined to Yemassee and vicinity 

 alone, for they were shot at Hampton C. H., and at Brunson, in 

 Hampton County. My opinion is that they were scattered all 

 over Hampton County. 



The departure of the Crossbills late in May to their breeding 

 grounds may prove that the Crossbills which breed in the moun- 

 tains of North Carolina do not breed until the summer, and, 

 curiously enough, in this respect are very different from the 

 Crossbills of the North, which breed in the winter and early 

 spring months. 



BIRDS OF TOM GREEN AND CONCHO COUNTIES, 



TEXAS. 



BY WILLIAM LLOYD. 



( Concluded from p. igj.) 



133. Cyanocitta cristata. Blue Jay. — Abundant in Zavalla and Dim- 

 mit Counties, near Eagle Pass, on the Rio Grande. Its limit to the 



