390 PROCEEDINGS: BOSTON SOCIETY NATURAL HISTORY. 



We did not see any Rusty Grackles in Labrador, but obtained the 

 skin of a bird "from the Eskimos at Hopedale. 



Pinicola enucleator leucura (Mull.). 

 Canadian Pine Grosbeak; "Mope"; "Spruce-bird"; "Bullfinch." 



Common summer resident, wintering in southern forested portions. 



Coues, Weiz, and Bigelow speak of this bird as common in summer 

 back of the coast where there are woods. Packard records it as "abun- 

 dant in summer only at Fort Chimo, where it breeds ; resident south of 

 'Height of Land'." Stearns found it common in fall and winter on 

 the southern coast. Low found it common on the upper Hamilton 

 River and records one seen on May 1st. Macoun says: "One seen 

 at Richmond Gulf, July 1st, 1896; not again observed in Labrador. 

 (Spreadborough.) .... Common in the winter at Lake Mistassini, 

 Que. (J. M. Macoun.)" 



Cartwright on March 20, 1776, says in his journal: "I shot an 

 American bullfinch, which is as large as an English thrush. They 

 come here in spring to breed and leave us at the latter end of the sum- 

 mer; this bird was full of partridge-berries." Also on March 30, 

 1778: "I saw a bulfinch for the first time this year." 



We saw the skin of a Pine Grosbeak taken near Hopedale by an 

 Eskimo, and Mr. Schmitt at Nain told us it bred there. 



Carpodacus purpureus (Gmel.). 

 Purple Finch. 



Common summer resident in southern Labrador. 



Audubon "found this species from Labrador to Texas." Kumlien 

 observed it off Resolution Island. Packard says it is "plentiful in 

 southern portions." 



Loxia curvirostra minor (Brehm). 



American Crossbill. 



Uncommon summer resident; may winter. 



This species is more southern in its distribution than leucoptera. 



