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Co., December, 1884. (/. Hughes-Samuel^ An infrequent winter 

 visitor at Guelph, Ont. {A.B.Klugh.) A male and female taken 

 at Fort Churchill, Hudson Bay. {Clarke.) 



A winter visitant ; possibly resident and breeding. On Decem- 

 ber 6th, 1882, at the spruce bush, 35° below zero, shot three indi-. 

 viduals out of a small flock that was feeding on the cones of a tall 

 spruce. These were all males. {Thompson-Seton.) Common on 

 Methye River in flocks ; a few between that river and Isle a la 

 Crosse, Sask. {J. M. Macoun.) Saw several on Macleod River, west 

 of Edmonton, Alta., June 19, 1898. Quite common in the woods at 

 Banff, Rocky Mountains, and evidently breeding in the summer of 

 1891 ; two seen in the Crow's Nest Pass in 1897. {Spreadborough.) 

 This crossbill inhabits the dense spruce forests of the Northwest 

 Territories, feeding principally on the' seeds of the cones. It 

 ranges through the whole breadth of the continent and probably 

 up to Lat. 68°, where the woods terminate, though it was not ob- 

 served by us north of Lat. 63°. {Richardson) [North to Fort Good 

 Hope on the Mackenzie River. {Ross.) A pair of this species 

 was obtained during our residence at Fort Anderson but no nests 

 were seen. {Macfarlafie.) Rocky Mountain district; Beaver Pass, 

 B.C. by Mr. Geo. Hyde. {Fannin.) Three specimens taken at 

 Chilliwack, B.C. ; quite abundant in the Cariboo district in the 

 winter of 1898-99 and common in the summer of 1900. {Brooks.) 

 Common on Queen Charlotte Islands, B.C., but no specimens were 

 taken ; common at Cook's Inlet, Alaska, but always in pairs. 

 {Osgood.) Although the last species is thus far known only as an 

 excessively rare visitant in the northern portion of Alaska, the 

 present bird is found in the greatest abundance wherever trees 

 occur to afford shelter. {Nelson.) This species is abundant in the 

 interior of the Yukon district and other wooded-'parts. It only 

 occasionally visits St. Michael and then never in large flocks. 

 {Turner) This species was a common resident throughout the 

 year in certain parts of the Kowak valley, Kotzebue Sound. 

 They were always to be found along the bases of the mountains," 

 especially in the tracts of small spruces bearing great clusters of 

 cones. {Grinnell.) Crossbills in flocks of from half a dozen to one 

 hundred individuals were often seen from Lake Lebarge to Charlie 

 Village, July i6th to August nth, 1899, on the Yukon River, 

 Yukon District. {Bishop) 



