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flock of Pine Grosbeaks about a mile and a half south of the village, but 

 although a careful lookout was kept for some weeks, this was the only 

 other occasion on which any were seen. 



61. Pinicola enucleator leucura (Miiller). Pine Grosbeak. — 

 Irregular winter visitant; Jan. 23 to March 28. My first acquaintance 

 with these interesting birds was made on February 8, 1912, when small 

 flocks visited the apple and maple trees round my house, feeding on the 

 old apples still remaining on the former and doing considerable damage to 

 the buds of the latter, before they left on March 28. The following winter 

 they arrived on Jan. 23 and it was not until March 21, that I saw the 

 last of them. Most of the flocks consisted of females and young birds 

 with only a few red ones amongst them as a rule. 



62. Passer domesticus domesticus (Linnaeus) . House Sparrow. — 

 Common resident. Eggs: May to July. This great pest luckily is not 

 very abundant here so far, many of the farms having none at all, and at 

 those where they have taken up their abode they do not seem to increase in 

 numbers very materially, nor do the villages seem to be particularly over- 

 burdened with them. 



63. Carpodacuspurpureuspurpureus (Gmelin). Purple Finch. — 

 Fairly common summer visitant; May 2 to Oct. 25 (Nov. 28). Average 

 date of arrival (for four years) May 10; of departure (for three years) 

 Oct. 17. This is quite a common bird at migration times, but during the 

 summer months its numbers are very limited, and I have not yet been able 

 to locate a nest, although two or three old ones found in the fall would 

 seem to belong to this species judging from their situation and construc- 

 tion. The late date in November is for a single female only, which was 

 in the company of a large flock of Goldfinches. 



64. Acanthis linaria linaria (Linnseus). Redpoll. — Irregular 

 winter visitant; Nov. 30 to April 13. So far as I have been able to judge 

 the Redpoll is decidedly an irregular and erratic visitor, and the largest 

 flock that I have come across consisted of only forty birds. 



65. Astragalinus tristis tristis (Linnseus). Goldfinch. — Common 

 summer visitant, sometimes in winter; May 3 to Nov. 28 (Dec. 18, 31, 

 Jan. 4). Average date of arrival (for four years) May 15; of departure 

 (for two years) Nov. 28. Eggs: June 3 to Aug. 20. Notwithstanding 

 careful searching I have not observed the Goldfinch during the winter and 

 early spring months, until the present year 1915, when a pair of birds were 

 seen on each of the dates in December, and five on Jan. 4, 1916. The verj' 

 early and hot summer of 1911 was no doubt responsible for the unusually 

 early date of June 3 for a set of eggs. Out of ten nests examined two 

 contained a set of six eggs. 



66. Spinus pinus (Wilson) . Pine Siskin. — Irregular winter visitant; 

 Nov. 7 to May 25. My first acquaintance with the Pine Siskin was in 

 December of 1914, and from then on to May 25, 1915, I encountered 

 them almost daily in flocks of from 5 to 25 birds. They were especially 

 fond of a Uttle swampy cedar wood upon the seeds of which they could be 



