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MIGRATION RECORD. 



108. [521] Lo.cix nn-n'i-oxtw minor (Brehm). American Crossbill. 



An exceedingly irregular species; has been found often in winter and 

 lias been reported a summer resident. 



The Red Crossbill was first reported from Monroe County, February 

 10, 1883, by B. W. Evermann who says it was common for some" time 

 after that date. The same authority also says that it was common dur- 

 ing the winter of 1883-4. In both the spring and the fall of 1885 they were 

 quite common. C. H. Bollrnan's record of its movements in the spring is 

 as follows: 8 males and females seen March 2 and 3; the arrival of the 

 bulk from the north took place March 8 and both sexes were then com- 

 mon; in a letter to J. M. Wheaton he reported them still present March 13; 

 and the last male was seen May 10 and the last female May 12. The 

 bulk of the species departed April 15. From uncatalogued specimens in 

 the collection of Indiana University the following additional dates were 

 obtained: March 10; a male May 14. During the year 1885 it was also 

 reported to have bred at Bloomington. "Mr. Sam Hunter reports a pair 

 to have nested in a pine here in 1885. He says the nest was made ex- 

 clusively of pine burrs" (E. M. Kindle.). 



In the fall of 1885, C. H. Bollrnan reported the Red Crossbill October 

 4 and November 5, but gives no date for the last one seen, indicating that 

 it remained throughout the winter, and, indeed, W. S. Blatebley reports 

 it in his list of winter birds as a scarce resident during the Winter of 

 1885-6. In the latter year, the first Crossbills were reported January 18. 

 and fifteen or twenty were seen February 6 '(G. G. W.). Crossbills, prob- 

 ably of this species, but not exactly identified were i'ej>ortect February 23 



