Bethel, Maine
1913.
Nov. 15-22 
(No 7)

8. Pinicola enucleator. - Heard calling on the 16th [November 16, 1913] near Dr. Gehring's
house & on the 21st [November 21, 1913] far back in the forest.

9. Acanthis linaria. - Seen or heard daily, whenever I went out of 
doors. On the 18th [November 18, 1913] I saw at one time 14 birds & 
at another upwards of 50, feeding in the top of a 
larch thickly hung with cones which the Redpolls
were picking to pieces. For the most part, however,
they seemed to affect gray birches, profusely fruited
everywhere, beneath many of which the ground was littered with 
the chaff-like scales of the disrupted cones they had 
been working on. As far as I was able to make 
out under favoring conditions, with the aid of my 
glass, all the birds that came under my notice 
were typical linaria. There were but few rosy-breasted 
ones. I heard the swelling swee-e-e-e-e song once 
on the 18th [November 18, 1913] just as the flock took wing.