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50. Purple Finch. Several Purple Finches in full song were frequenting
ash trees in Miss Eaton's grounds at Concord village when I visited
her on April 12 [April 12, 1916]. She said they had then been there for two weeks or
more, feeding on the ash seeds, sometimes in company with Evening
Grosbeaks. On the 17th [April 17, 1916] a [male] appeared near our farm house, to sing daily
and most delightfully in its neighborhood through the entire season.
Sometimes he was accompanied by a [female]. Just where the pair nested
I failed to ascertain. Two young presumably reared by them were
seen on wing in the apple orchard on June 28 [June 28, 1916].

51. Red Crossbill. My only records are of five or six birds
flying together through Pulpit Rock woods, calling loudly, on
April 25 [April 25, 1916] and of a single bird seen on wing, among the
same white pines, on the 25th of the month [April 25, 1916].

52. Goldfinch. Seen singly, in pairs or occasionally as many as four
or five together, at not infrequent intervals during the entire season.
They continued to feed on gray birch seeds as late as May 18 [May 18, 1916]
and not long after that began eating dandelion seeds while the
ripe fruit of our White Mulberry tree attracted them to it daily
early in July. Some of the males had acquired a mostly black & yellow
plumage by May 3 [May 3, 1916] but few perfected it until June. One was
heard in nearly full song on April 17 [April 17, 1916]. All began singing more
or less freely about the middle of June.

53. Pine Linnett. The flight call and swee-e-e-e song (?) notes of
a Pine Finch was heard in Birch Field on April 10 [April 10, 1916]. I failed to
see the bird and noted no other during the spring.

54. Savanna Sparrow. Mr. Dexter heard two males singing in Mill Brook
Meadow, to the eastward of the Moore farm, sometime in June.