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 s better populated ,'inil can Ixiast <>) halt a dozen resident 



gigtl its II. -t ail- 1 ejrirs HUiy beCOIlle better kll'-WM. Like tile 



pin. ami evening;:''"- ' <T. .sshill ami thcwhit 



ill s,im,-tim.-s visit < >ntari<> in Mocks -luring th.- winter 

 months. They frequent the <rardens in the outskirts >t' the 

 ii-l are shot l.y l>ys with catapults. Some years ago 

 a pair of iv. I crossbills- bred at l\.-\\ < lar.l.-n.s. tluv miles ,-.^l 

 The ii.-st ami r^r s u,.)-.- taken early in April, 

 |ss;. This sp,ci.-s is km>\vn to l.n-e.l in the I'nite.l Stiiten, 

 in Minn. Northern \.-\\ Kn^lainl. ami from thence m.rth- 



wai-.l thr-'ii^hoin ('anaila. Its nest ami e^s ha\i- also i 

 taken in the b>wer Hulson Valley ami in Pennsylvania. The 

 eggs are laiil while the >n,.w is on the irrouml in March. The 

 White-winged CTOaBbfl] is a suininer resident near Shoal Like. 

 Likes Winnipeg ami Manitoba. A s,-t of four e^r s in my col- 

 lection ilolll.tless I.eloliofs to this sp,.,-i,.s. They Wel'e taken 



iHWr Shoal Like, Manitoba, March -27th. 1887, Tin- nest was 



in a pine tree, twenty feet up. ami tli .re white, with a 



faint greenish tinin- : they are sp,,tte<l at the larger ends with 



dark l>rown. ami have also numerous speckles of lavender 



. which almost form a /one around the butt end of the 



. The c^^-s ,,f this species are like those of the Kuropean 



and ]arrot crossbill in my collection, and they an- not unlike 



eggs if the Kuropean ^reentinch in <_jvneral appearance, but 



arger. The f..u! the white-winged croaBbO] U-fore 



me a \ i . i _: < ' s i i bes a saucer-shaped 



nest . ,f this bird. It was made of lichens, encase* 1 in spruce 



gB, lined with hair and bark shreds, four inches in diam 

 wif by an inch and a half deep. The eggs were pale 



bhi' i at the lar^e end with tine dots .if black and ashy 



lil;u-. This nest was taken in \,.\v 1 '.nuiswick. 



The white-winded crossbill has ,. M s.-v.-ral occasions been 

 iim-.l in (Jr.at I'.ritain. Mr. Hastings enumeratefl several 

 instances in which they were observed. On one occasion "a 

 large flock" made its app. M.-ar liantf. Si-otland. in 



Is."/ 1 M ^' 'me years ago Dr. I ) u ar, of (Jlasgow, 



when six hundred miles of}' Newfoundland, observed a number 



