2KA. Brewster oh the Pine Grosbeak. I July 



England leaves their starting point and the route by which they 

 reached Nova Scotia and the coast of Maine a matter of con- 

 jecture, but after they had passed the Maritime Provinces, their 

 progress through Maine to southern New England may be easily 

 traced. 



Map No. I shows with two exceptions all the stations from 

 which Grosbeaks were reported in unusual numbers. These 

 exceptions are Locust Grove, in northwestern New York, and 

 Halifax in Nova Scotia. At the former station they were seen 

 from the end of November up to the end of January. In Halifax 

 they were very numerous about November 28. They were also 

 reported from Godbout, Quebec, and from Toronto and vicinity, 

 but in no unusual numbers. A few were seen at Ottawa, but 

 none at Montreal. On the Saskatchewan River they were found 

 in only their usual numbers. 



These facts indicate that there was no marked flight in the 

 St. Lawrence Valley, and that the flocks which invaded New 

 England came from Labrador or Newfoundland across or around 

 the Gulf of St. Lawrence to New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. 



From eastern Maine, where they were seen in flocks of from 

 ten to forty birds each, they entered northeastern Massachusetts, 

 the first flocks having been noted there about the third week in 

 November. In Massachusetts the horde seems to have divided, 

 one party entering Connecticut, and pushing its vanguard as far 

 as Stamford ^ ; the other invading Rhode Island and southern 

 Massachusetts as far as Woods Hole, where they were numerous 

 as late as February 7. 



A reference to Map No. i shows also a number of stations to 

 the westward of the area supposed to have been covered by the 

 principal flight. With the exception of Locust Grove, these 

 stations were all either in Berkshire County, Mass., or just over 

 the New England line in New York. It is possible of course to 

 consider the birds which visited them as belonging to the great 

 flight, but inasmuch as Grosbeaks appear much more frequently 

 in Berkshire County and northern New York than in eastern 



' Mr. J. T. Delafield reported one bird about Dec. i, at New Rochelle on 

 Long Island Sound, New York. 



