USIiFl^L JMRDS 
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AMERICAN CROSSBILL. 
A frequent visitor from the North in the fall and during' the 
winter. Afore common in the timber and wooded country than in 
open sections, though occasionally seen on some high tree in the 
middle of a large city. Wherever observed in this latitude, they 
are always tame and easily approached. The writer has found 
them in July in the upper Red River Valley, feeding upon the in- 
sect contents of poplar galls. These were probably young birds 
and their occurrence here at that date would indicate the birds 
breeding at no very great distance. 
