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it a Pileated Woodpecker, though the locality was extraordinary and the 

 bird is rare, in our near vicinity, even in our densest and oldest woods. — 

 Fannie Hardy Eckstorm, Brewer, Maine. 



Note on the Red Crossbill and the Pine Finch in South Carolina. — 



Having passed many winters in the Southern States without seeing either 

 species, I was interested to find both the Red Crossbill (Loxia curvirostra 

 minor) and the Pine Finch (Spinns pinus) common in South Carolina in 

 the winter of 1908-1909. At Camden, Kershaw County, between Decem- 

 ber 12 and January 4, no bird note was to be heard so often as that of the 

 Pine Finch except the Blue Jay's; and the bird occurred abundantly in 

 and near the town, in parties of from three or four to about a dozen indi- 

 viduals. The Crossbill was not abundant, but I heard it nearly every day. 

 Sometimes I heard it only, as it flew over head; sometimes I saw single 

 individuals, again two or three. On January 1, at half-past seven in the 

 morning, I saw five together at close range. 



I went to Aiken, in the southwestern part of the State, on January 5. 

 There I found the Pine Finch common but decidedly less so than it had 

 been at Camden. From this time its numbers gradually diminished, and, 

 when I left for the North, late in February, it had become uncommon. 

 The Crossbill was also less in evidence at Aiken than at Camden. I first 

 saw it at the more southern town on January 8, when I met with two. 

 The largest number seen together was five, at 7.45 a. m., January 16. On 

 January 23 two tarried for a short time in a pine distant but a few feet 

 from my window; and this was the last of the Crossbill at Aiken for the 

 season, so far as I could discover. — Nathan Clifford Brown, Portland, 

 Maine. 



The Grasshopper Sparrow at Ottawa, Ontario. — On June 30, while 

 prowling around in one corner of the Experimental Farm here, I heard a 

 here unknown but to me familiar song. Its author allowed me to ap- 

 proach closely and to inspect him carefully with the glass. It was, as I 

 knew immediately upon first hearing his song, a Grasshopper Sparrow 

 (Ammodramus savannarum australis), an old acquaintance of mine in the 

 south. There were two birds there, both singing from the wire fence 

 around a large timothy field. Next day I went there again to secure it, 

 but could find it no more. But there is no mistake possible; I know the 

 bird too well, having taken and prepared many when living in Maryland. 

 This is quite an extension of the range of this species, comparatively un- 

 known in Canada. As stated on authority of W. E. Saunders in Macoun's 

 ' Catalogue,' it is fairly common only in the two southwestern counties of 

 Ontario, is rare at London, and has only twice been taken at Toronto 

 (J. H. Fleming). — G. Eifrig, Ottawa, Ont. 



The Prairie Warbler (Dendroica discolor) in Northern Ontario. — On 



