1883.] 373 [Brewster. 



and islands of the gulf. We heard its rich song at Port Hawkes- 

 bury, among the spruces that lined the streets of Gaspe, in the 

 lonely forests of Anticosti, and at various points along the North 

 Shore. Throughout this region its voice was prominent in the 

 chorus of songsters that add so much to the attractiveness of the 

 brief, semi-Arctic summer. 



24. Loxia leucop cera, Gm. — White- winged Crossbill. 



On July 24 I observed a flock of eight or ten individuals at 

 Ellis Bay, Anticosti. They were flying about a tract of burnt 

 ground, occasionally alighting on some dead spruces. I got suf- 

 ficiently near them to ascertain that the flock consisted of two 

 pairs of adult birds with their young still in the streaked 'first 

 plumage, but they were so restless that I could not obtain a 

 shot. The old males occasionally uttered a feeble, trilling song 

 very like that of the Snowbird (Junco hiemalis), and I also heard 

 the metallic chink and chattering cry given by the species in 

 winter. This was the only occasion on which Crossbills of either 

 species were met with. 



24. Chrysomitris pinus, Bartr. — Pine Linnet. 



Pine Linnets were abundant at Gaspe, where they were appar- 

 ently nesting in the spruces and balsams that lined the village 

 streets. At all hours of the day the males could be seen circling 

 or floating in the air, singing on wing in the manner of the Gold- 

 finch (Chrysomitris tristis). This was on July 14. Later (July 

 24) we found them in flocks among the evergreen forests about 

 Ellis Bay, Anticosti, where their restless, wandering movements 

 indicated that the breeding season was at an end. 



Despite the fact that all the authentic nests of this species have 

 been taken in early spring, I am convinced that many individuals 

 breed in June and July. In northern Maine and New Hamp- 

 shire I have taken young in first plumage as late as the first 

 week of August, while I have never found them on wing before 

 July 10. It may be objected that such cases merely indicate a 

 second laying ; but my experience earlier in the season, in the 

 region just referred to, affords abundant proofs that the species 

 never breeds there before the middle of June. The truth of the 

 matter probably is that, like the Crossbills, it nests irregularly and 

 at different times in different places. The song of the Pine Lin- 

 net is closely similar to that of Chrysomitris tristis. 



