1900
March 24
C.E. Bailey's
notes.
  C.E. Bailey called this afternoon. As usual he 
had many interesting things to tell me of which
the following seem worthy of record :-
Remarkable
abundance of
White-winged
Crossbills
  Loxia leucoptera - While hunting Partridges on the
northern slope of Mt. Monadnock, N.H., a few days
before Christmas (1899) Bailey found White-winged Crossbills
in extraordinary numbers. In fact the whole region was
simply alive with them.It would have been an easy 
matter, he says, to have collected one hundred specimens
in a single day. They were feeding chiefly in hemlocks
or on the ground under these trees.Some of the 
flocks contained fifty or more birds each. He saw 
no Red Crossbills among them.
  Early in March they were also very numerous about
Winchendon, Mass.
Pine Grosbeaks
  Pinicola canadensis,- Pine Grosbeaks have been rather
numerous all winter in the Winchendon region.
Bailey has seen them about his house there during
the early part of the present month. For the
first time in his experience he has found the
adult (red) males in greater numbers than the 
females & young. He has seen no Grosbeaks in
the region about Boston this year.
Decrease in
Partridges at
Winchendon
  Bonasa umbellus .- Bailey says that Partridges are
getting very scarce in the Winchendon region altho'
little shooting is down there. Ten years ago
he could start 50 or 60 birds in a day.
Now 10 or 12 are the usual number seen.
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