1894,] The Range of Crossbilis in the Ohio Valley. 139 
reported their breeding in eastern Massachusetts in the sum- 
mer of 1884 (The Auk, Vol. II, p. 105). In the winter of 1884 
~5, they were tolerably common in Monroe County, Indiana 
(Blatchley in Hoosier Naturalist, 1886, p. 170). The late Mr. C. 
H. Bollman noted. them “quite common” in the same county 
through March, April and early May, 1885. He saw them 
first March 2 and last observed them May 12. Mr. J. W Byr- 
kit informed me that he saw the first Crossbills for the year, 
March 24, 1885. He adds “I am not quite positive, but I 
think the Crossbills breed, here (Michigan City) as they make 
their appearance about this time and leave for the north 
about the middle of May.” Mr. Charles Dury informed me 
they were abundant at Michigan City, Indiana, one winter, 
which he thinks was 1885. He also reported Pine Finches 
and Redpolls from the same locality the same year. Professor 
B. W. Evermann reported it from Carroll County, Indiana, 
March 27,1885. I am indebted to Mr. E. M. Kindle for the 
information that Mr. Sam. Hunter reported a pair of Ameri- 
can Crossbills as having bred at Bloomington, Indiana, in 1885. 
Mr. Hunter informed him they nested in a pine tree and that 
the nest was made exclusively of pine burrs. Mr. R i 
Moffitt informs me that Réd Crossbills were taken in Tippeca- 
hoe County, Indiana, in 1885. He says they nested there. 
Professor B. W. Evermann noted them at Camden, Indiana, 
March 27 and April 13, 1885, also a large flock at Burlington, 
Indiana, April 23, 1885. | 
Mr. Wm. Brester reported its occurrence in the mountains 
of western North Carolina in the summer of 1885 (The Auk, 
Vol. III, p. 107) and says:—“ Seen only on the Black Mount- 
ains where it was numerous in small flocks throughout the 
balsam forests above 5,000 feet.” At Highlands I was told 
that it regularly appeared in winter about the outskirts of the 
town. Mr. Charles W. Richmond (The Auk, Vol. V, p. 22) 
gives upon the authority of Mr. Hugh M. Smith, the informa- 
tion that an adult male American Crossbill, accompanied by 
a young bird, was seen May 17, 1885, within the District of 
Columbia. 
