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The American Cross§?ll.— 9 fie /Pme/ican Brossfill is usually quite 
common in this vicinity during the winter months, and a few birds remain 
until quite late in the spring. A flock of about thirty remained on the 
Maine State College campus from March 4 to June 19, 1895, and at any 
time they could be found feeding in the pine trees with which the 
college campus is covered. Birds shot from this flock at intervals showed 
no indications of breeding upon dissection. June 19, the flock of Cross- 
bills suddenly disappeared. 
While at Jackman, Maine, from August 16-23, 1895, I found American 
Crossbills to be very common in that vicinity. They were usually in 
small flocks of five to seven individuals and were very evidently parents 
and young of the year. A number of times I observed the parents in the 
act of feeding the young. 
What is very odd is the fact that I observed a number of the birds 
flying about in pairs. These were probably still nesting. Some of the 
; Crossbills probably nest much later than is generally supposed. — Ora 
W. Knight, Bangor , Maine. 
The Red Crossbill Unusually Common at Portland, Maine, in Sum- 
mer. — During the early summer of 1899, Red Crossbills (Loxia curviros- 
tra minor ) were numerous about the west end of Portland, Maine, — a sec- 
tion of the city in which there is still a good deal of land devoted to 
gardens and lawns, and which contains a hill-side park with a large grove 
of pines. I returned to Portland from the south on June 2. The birds 
were then everywhere in evidence about my neighborhood, but mainly 
because of their vociferousness. They were quite elusive, and I found it 
difficult to estimate their numbers except from the noise they made. It 
was not until July 1 that I saw a large number together. On that morn- 
ing, I counted twenty-eight in one open flock which flew slowly over 
me as I stood in the middle of a wide lawn. On the afternoon of that 
same day I left Portland for the summer. — Nathan Clifford Brown, 
Portland , Me. Auk, XVII, April, 1000 , p. ' 7 i ~ 
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