146 The American Naturalist. (February, 
female and, a few days later, two other specimens near the 
same place. Miss H. E. Colfax reports it from Michigan City, 
Indiana. June 26, 1884, Mr. J. W. Byrkit found both species 
together in large flocks near Michigan City, Indiana, the win- 
ter of 1883-4. Mr. Charles Dury reports it from Michigan 
City, Indiana, he thinks in 1885. Faxon and Allen report 
seeing a fewin the White Mountains, N. H., June, 1886. 
(The Auk, Vol. V, p.152). Hon. R. Wes McBride has noted it 
as a winter visitor in De Kalb County, Indiana. Dr. ©. Hart 
Merriam gives it as a resident in the Adirondack region but 
adds, comparing it with the American Crossbill, “not nearly 
so common as the last.” (Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, Vol. VI, p. 
229). Professor B. W. Evermann informs me that he saw one 
in the spring of 1886 in his brother’s yard at Burlington, In 
diana. He says “after watching it for awhile I struck it 
with a stick, killing it.” March 16, he saw another specimen 
of this species at Camden, Indiana. 
The only instance I know of its occurring in the Ohio Val- 
ley in summer, is that given by the late Mr. C. H. Bollman. 
He wrote me that he saw eleven on a fir tree in Bloomington, 
Indiana, June 24, 1886. A few days later he several times 
noted specimens of the other species. 
Everywhere in the Ohio Valley this species seems to be 
quite rare and exceedingly irregular in its occurrence. Mr. 
E. W. Nelson and Mr. Otho Poling note it as much less com- 
mon in Illinois than formerly. With the exception of the 
` winter of 1868-9 and the succeeding summer, I do not know 
of its having appeared in any considerable numbers in any 
of the tier of states just north of the Ohio River. 
