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occurrence in the mountains of western North Carolina in 

 the summer of 1885 (The Auk, III., p. 107), and says : 

 " Seen only on the Black Mountains, where it was numerous 

 in small flocks throughout the balsam forests above 5000 feet. 

 At Highlands, I was told that it regularly appeared in winter 

 about the outskirts of the town." Mr. Charles W. Rich- 

 mond (The Auk, V., p. 22), gives, upon the authority of Mr. 

 Hugh M. Smith, the information that an adult male Red 

 Crossbill, accompanied by a young bird, was seen May 17, 



1885, within the District of Columbia. Prof. L. L. Dyche 

 reports the occurrence, in the winter of 1885-6, of the West- 

 ern Red Crossbill (Loxia curvirostra stricklandi ) at Law- 

 rence, Emporia, Manhattan and Wakarusa, Kas. They were 

 first observed Nov. i, 1885, and were last seen Jan. 26, 1886 

 (The Auk, IH,, pp. 258-261). The following winter I was 

 fortunate in securing, through the kindness of Mr. A. O. Gar- 

 rett, a series of specimens of Loxia curvirostra minor from 

 Lawrence, Kas. March 13 and 14, 1887, he obtained four, 

 which he sent me ; and later he sent me nine others which 

 were taken March 24 and 25. The meeting of the range of 

 the two forms is of considerable interest. Prof. B. W. Ever- 

 mann reports a Crossbill, species not determined, from 

 Bloomington, Ind., Feb. 23, 1886, and another March 8, 



1886. The same authority states the late Mr. C. H. Boll- 

 man found a few specimens of the Red Crossbill near 

 Bloomington, Ind., July 10, 13, and 14, 1886. Mr. Arthur 

 B. Chadbourne says, in the summer of 1886 it was found in 

 the White Mountains, N. H. (The Auk, IV., p. 105). Mr. 

 George B. Sennett, in the same volume, p. 242, gives an 

 account of finding this species in the mountains on the bor- 

 ders of North Carolina and Tennessee, in July and August, 

 1886. Mr. Arthur T. Wayne, in the same volume, pp. 287- 

 289, notes their abundance near Yemassee, S. C, in Novem- 

 ber and December, 1886, and in January and February, 1887. 

 He notes them again in the same vicinity, November 20, 

 1887 (The Auk, V., p. 115); also during January, 1888 



