1906
Nov. 26
(No 2)
  White-winged Crossbill. On October 29 I saw a flock
of six White-winged Crossbills flying over the open fields
near the Railroad station at West Bedford, Mass.
On November 1 I saw six more (a single bird and five
birds together) in Concord. During the first week of
November Crossbills of this species were noted at very
many places in eastern Mass. They are still here 
in numbers I am told. Walter Deane saw about
twenty five only yesterday, in Fresh Pond Grove.
During the A.O.U. meeting at Washington (I think on
November 16) Mr Fleming of Toronto saw a single
White-winged Crossbill in the (?) Grounds.
Some of the members of the Union told on the flight
had been noted in the upper Mississippi valley as 
well as in New England.
  Red-bellied Nuthatch: - A moderate flight at Concord
where I noted the first bird on September 4. & where the
species was present in small numbers through October.
Walter Deane tells me he saw a bird in Fresh Pond Grove
on November 26.
  Snowy Owl. On Nov. 7 I saw in the flesh in the
shop of Walter D. Hinds at Portland, Me. two Snowy Owls
in the flesh that had been killed only a day or two previously
near that city, as I was told. One of them was the whitest
birds I have ever seen taken in the east. Mr. Fleming of
Toronto told me a week later that a good flight had 
reached that part of Canada just before he left there to 
attend the A.O.U. meeting. Most of the birds which had 
been killed were exceptionally white, he said.