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the vicinity of the Crawford House in late July and throughout 

 August and into September. In drives through Bretton Woods 

 I several times noted birds near the Mt. Washington Hotel and 

 at Twin Rivers. An August 17 one sang finely from the tip of 

 a spruce directly in the rear of the hotel. On August 30 eleven 

 birds were feeding in the old cellar of the burned building at 

 Twin Rivers, formerly a logging camp. Upon our approach 

 thej^ rose out from the cellar, but soon sought it again for some- 

 thing to their liking ; what this was we could not ascertain. Mr. 

 John H. Baker writes me that White-winged Crossbills have 

 been present at Madison throughout the season, and Mr. M. C. 

 Blake that he saw many birds of the species in the Chocorua- 

 Whiteface region. 



Thus for the first time in the dozen j^ears of m}^ observation 

 White-winged Crossbills have been present in various localities 

 during Jul}', August and September, singing freelj'. This might 

 be taken as evidence of presumable breeding, if a three weeks' 

 season, or more, of free, spontaneous song much of the day may 

 serve as a criterion of nesting. But on the other hand the 

 species has been regarded as commonly nesting in late winter 

 or early spring from data which various observers have furnished, 

 and I have no direct evidence of its breeding on Randolph Hill 

 in July, where it was definitely located and in full song. 



118. Spizella pusilla pusilla. Fiei.d Sparrow. 



The representation of the Field Sparrow in the season of 

 191 1 was small. Yet the song was heard on the Highland on 

 June 5 and again on June 8 and in another locality on July i to 

 9, indicating the probable nesting of the species. On June 15 

 a bird was heard singing in I^unenburg, Vermont, where two 

 had been heard on June 27, 1910. Mr. Spaulding did not find 

 any individuals in L,ancaster, neither did I upon successive 

 drives there. 



151. Dendroica castanea. Bay-breasted Warbler. 



The species was greatly diminished in the season of 191 1. 

 As in 19 10, no representatives occupied the fifty-acre piece of 



