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Occasionally a few would come into the orchard and pick among the 

 frozen apples left on the trees. While feeding they were very gentle and 

 I had no difficulty in catching several in a small scoop-net, made of fine 

 wire, attached to a pole. Four that I have in a large cage are very fond 

 of sunflower and hemp seeds. They will eat canary and rape seed but 

 prefer that of the sunflower. Millet seed they will not eat if they can get 

 any other food. They appear to have four distinct sets of notes,— a low 

 querulous note uttered while feeding ; another, somewhat resembling that 

 of the Goldfinch, uttered both on the wing and while sitting in the trees; 

 and a longer drawn whistle that reminds one of a Cedar-bird. This 

 appears to be their usual call-note when restless and alarmed. Several 

 times I heard an attempt at a song, consisting of three or four finch-like 

 notes. During the winter I met with a few Grosbeaks at Rocky Point, 

 and heard of their presence at several other places on Long Island. — 

 A. H. Helme, Miller Place, N. V. 



The Pine Grosbeak on Long Island, N. Y. — After years of waiting I 

 am at last able to positively record this species on Long Island. Three 

 specimens were seen at Southold, February 3, 1904, by Mrs. A. F. Lowerre 

 who is an unusually careful observer. Her report is as follows: "Tues- 

 day morning I saw three birds in a neighbor's honeysuckle. Took my 

 opera glass and went close to study them. Found they were Pine Gros- 

 beaks, either all females or young male birds. There were no carmine-red 

 adult males to be seen. I never saw or heard of them here before." 



February 12 Mrs. Lowerre wrote: "I saw the three grosbeaks again 

 yesterday ; the only places they seem to visit are the honeysuckle vines." 

 Subsequently Mrs. Lowerre reports that she did not see the grosbeaks 

 after February n. 



All Giraud says of them is : "In the autumn of 1827, large flocks of pine 

 grosbeaks visited Long Island .... Since that period until the present 

 year (1844), I have not seen or heard of its occurring on Long Island." — 

 William Dutcher, Neiv York City. 



White-winged Crossbill — A Correction.— Mr. Spicer of Goodrich, 

 Genesee Co., Mich., has requested me to correct a misleading record 

 attributed to him by Professor Cook in his 'Birds of Michigan,' p. 108. 

 Cook quotes him as finding the White-winged Crossbill breeding at Good- 

 rich, Mich., but the note in question (O. & O., 18S9, p. 43) refers to the 

 American Goldfinch. Unfortunately this record is quoted in my recent 

 ' List of the Birds of Southeastern Michigan ' (Bull. Mich. Ornith. Club, 

 IV, 38) and is very misleading as to the southern breeding range of 

 Loxia leticoptera. — Bradshaw A. Swales, Detroit, Mich. 



The Lark Sparrow in Oneida County, N. Y. — June 13, 1903, in the 

 extreme northeastern corner of this county, I saw, and positively identi- 

 fied, a Lark Sparrow {C/iondesfes grammacus). A week later I visited 



