Pinicola enucleator . 
Lobster Lake, Piscataquis Co., Maine. Very tame. 
1399. The tamest or perhaps the stupidest bird I met was the 
Sept. Pine Grosbeak. On a former trip in late October two males 
had accompanied me some mile or more upon a tramp in the 
woods. This year two females whom I wished to photograph 
permitted themselves to be shaken one by one out of some 
badly located mountain-maples into similar bushes which hap- 
pened to please me better; and sat for their photographs at 
4 ft. range. Maple seeds were perhaps an absorbing diet. Un- 
fortunately my films are a blank - a dull day and the wrong ' 
diaphragm. 
Copied from a letter to Wm. Brewster 
Reginald C .Robbins, dated 
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Boston, Mass., Sept. 28, 1899. 
