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Regular Summer Crossbills at Ithaca, N. Y. — These erratic nomads 
have so long enjoyed a reputation for irregularity in their movements, 
both winter and summer, that the regularity of their appearance at Ithaca, 
especially during the past four years, seems worthy of note. In fact they 
have come to be predicted as accurately as many of our spring migrants. 
In all we have about 40 records for the species. Of these, none have 
been made during the fall migration, but six during the winter, five during 
the spring, from the middle of March to the first of May, and thirty during 
the month of June. 
A more detailed study of our data will better reveal the regularity of their 
appearance. The first record was made June 16, 1889, by Mr. L. A. 
Fuertes who with us in recent years has noticed the regularity of their 
occurrence. In 1900 and 1904 records were also made in June. In 1906 
a flock of 10 were seen on the Cornell Campus from June 21 to 24. In 1907 
they were first seen on May 28 when twelve were recorded, and they con- 
tinued common until June 24. In 1908 they were daily noted from June 
10 to 17. In 1909 a flock of fifteen appeared June 6 and the species re- 
mained until June 14. Thus, for four successive years they have returned 
in approximately the same season of the year and the appeaiance is 
apparently regular. — Albert H. Wright, Arthur A. Allen, Ithaca, N. Y. 
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