Bendire.] 156 [October 6, 



17. Loxia americana Wilson. This species is first referred 

 to as having been taken early in December. " February 18th. I shot 

 a female of this species; a very small specimen, but an adult. As 

 these birds were then still in flocks, flying around, and occasionally 

 settling for a minute or two in the extreme tops of the tallest pines, it 

 does not appear probable that they breed so very early in the season. 

 I found its ovaries well developed, but in a normal condition." 



18. JEgiothus linaria Cab. " December 5th. I have just ob- 

 tained three specimens of this species. — January 24th. On the 20th 

 I had an opportunity to observe quite a large flock. They allowed 

 me to come within four feet of them. A number were hopping 

 about the ground, while others were searching the alders through 

 for insects. They seem to hang as easily on a small twig, head 

 downward, as any other way, and are very active and quick in their 

 movements, and also very quarrelsome. A number were constantly 

 driving others from some favorite twig, and, scarcely settled there, 

 commenced the same performance over again." 



19. Chrysomitris pinus Bonap. A specimen is referred to 

 as having been taken December 14th. 



20. Leucosticte tephrocotis Sw. Mention is made, Janu- 

 ary 17th, of obtaining a single specimen of this species in the plum- 

 age of this form. 



21. Leucosticte littoralis Baird. "Dec. 28th. On the 19th 

 inst., I procured ten specimens of this species. They were feeding 

 on a hillside, where the ground was covered in places with a little 

 snow. The flock I shot them out of must have numbered about three 

 hundred. It appeared to me that there must have been more than 

 one species in this flock, but all of those I killed proved to belong to 

 the same kind, but no two specimens were colored exactly alike. I 

 killed them with two discharges, one while they were sitting on the 

 ground, the other as they rose. The survivors flew three or four 

 times over my head while I was picking up the dead birds, and kept 

 up quite a twittering, as if they were calling for their lost compan- 

 ions, and finally left for the hills. They were very fat, and had their 

 crops filled to such an extent that the skin of the neck was dis- 

 tended. They were filled with grass seeds and very minute green 

 leaves of some wild plant that had just come above the ground dur- 

 ing the few previous days of warm weather. 



"January 24th. Yesterday evening, while at the company's stables, 

 a beautiful male of this species alighted within three feet of me, and 



