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mountain ash and honeysuckle, and eats Japanese barberries. 

 It will also eat frozen apples. Mrs. E. O. Marshall noted that 

 it fed on frosted apples, and she attracted several birds to the 

 house and even to the hand by using unfrozen apples cut up 

 so that the bird could get at the fruit from inside, as it could 

 not readily break the skin. These unpared pieces of apple were 

 placed on the snow near a window, but Mrs. Marshall writes 

 that she tamed the birds and lured them into an upper window 

 by using hemp and sunflower seeds. Hempseed seemed to be 

 the greatest attraction, as it brought the birds to her hands. 

 Mr. Walter P. Eaton found that they were fond of barberries 

 which grew on a hedge, and would eat ripe apples split open 

 so that they could get at the seed. Miss Bertha L. Brown 

 found that both this and the evening grosbeak were attracted 

 by the fruit of a crab apple tree that grew in her garden. Mrs. 

 Nathan C. Squires of Fredericton, New Brunswick, noted that 

 the pine grosbeak ate the seeds from small crab apples. The 

 Hon. Herbert Parker notes that this bird in captivity prefers 

 sunflower seeds beyond all else. Several observers report that 

 in winter this species seems fond of the fruit of the high bush 

 cranberry. Miss Eva L. Powers believes that this is eaten 

 mainly for the seeds. 



Purple Finch. 

 This common finch will eat dried currants, hempseed and 

 millet seed in winter, but nothing succeeds with it like a plenti- 

 ful supply of sunflower seeds. The purple finch winters even in 

 Maine when it can get these. In winter and early spring it 

 seeks the seeds of the white ash which still hang on the trees. 

 Miss Evie W. Drew writes that the finches have a " perfect con- 

 cert " on the ash trees in spring. Apple trees and other fruit trees 

 are favorites, for it feeds to some extent on the blossoms. It 

 prefers thick evergreen trees like the Virginia juniper or the 

 spruces in which to build its nest. 



Crossbills. 



These handsome, curious, but erratic and irregular winter 



visitors eat quantities of sand whenever they can get it. Mr. 



Ernest Harold Baynes tells how he saw a flock of white-winged 



crossbills nibbling at the mortar on a ruined building in winter, 



