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1890, Mr. James R. Benton of Clinton saw a flock 

 of four singing on a tree before his house and had the 

 good fortune to secure three, a male and two females. Mr. 

 Charles C. Davis, of this city, a competent observer, reports 

 two birds of this species in a mountain ash on Noyes Street, 

 February 8, 1907. He was within a few feet of them and the 

 identification was perfect. Mr. H. VanArnam reports a flock 

 at Westernville in January, 191 1. Three appeared first about 

 the first of the month and after that he saw them daily and 

 found them very tame. In the morning they came to the 

 village and fed on the seeds of the box elders. Later they 

 retired to the hillside and worked at the sumac buds till even- 

 ing, when they again came to the box elders. They were 

 reported from Broadwell the last of March. April 6 to 9 a 

 . flock of about twelve were in the shade trees on Scott Street, 

 Utica, N. Y., apparently eating elm buds. 



159. Pinicola enucleator leucura. 



PINE GROSiDEAK. 



An irregular winter visitor. 



160. Carpodacus purpureas purpureus. 



PURPLE PINCH. 



A common summer resident. Breeds. Sometimes winters. 

 Arrives February 29 to April 18. 



161. Loxia curvirostra minor. 



CROSSBILL. 



A very common summer resident in the West Canada Creek 

 Valley, where they come in flocks about the hunter's camps 

 and gather the crumbs literally from under the table, and 

 where ham, bacon and such provisions have to be carefully 

 covered to protect them from these birds. Seen occasionally 

 throughout the county in winter and as far south as Holland 

 Patent in summer. 



