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Brewster on the Pine Grosbeak. 
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England leaves their starting point and the route by which they 
reached Nova Scotia and the coast of Maine a matter of con- 
jecture, but after they had passed the Maritime Provinces, their 
progress through Maine to southern New England may be easily 
traced. 
Map No. i shows with two exceptions all the stations from 
which Grosbeaks were reported in unusual numbers. These 
exceptions are Locust Grove, in northwestern New York, and 
Halifax in Nova Scotia. At the former station they were seen 
from the qnd of November up to the end of January. In Halifax 
they were very numerous about November 28. They were also 
reported from Godbout, Quebec, and from Toronto and vicinity, 
but in no unusual numbers. A few were seen at Ottawa, but 
none at Montreal. On the Saskatchewan River they were found 
in only their usual numbers. 
These facts indicate that there was no marked flight in the 
St. Lawrence Valley, and that the flocks which invaded New 
England came from Labrador or Newfoundland across or around 
the Gulf of St. Lawrence to New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. 
From eastern Maine, where they were seen in flocks of from 
ten to forty birds each, they entered northeastern Massachusetts, 
the first flocks having been noted there about the third week in 
November. In Massachusetts the horde seems to have divided, 
one party entering Connecticut, and pushing its vanguard as far 
as Stamford 1 ; the other invading Rhode Island and southern 
Massachusetts as far as Woods Hole, where they were numerous 
as late as February 7. 
A reference to Map No. 1 shows also a number of stations to 
the westward of the area supposed to have been covered by the 
principal flight. With the exception of Locust Grove, these 
stations were all either in Berkshire County, Mass., or just over 
the New England line in New York. It is possible of course to 
consider the birds which visited them as belonging to the great 
flight, but inasmuch as Grosbeaks appear much more frequently 
in Berkshire County and northern New York than in eastern 
1 Mr. J. T. Delafield reported one bird about Dec. 1, at New Rochelle on 
Long Island Sound, New York. 
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