time and leave for the north about the middle of May. ’ Mr. Charles 
Dury informed me they were abundant at Michigan City, Ind., one win- 
ter, which he thinks was 1885. He also reported Pine Finches and Red- 
polls from the same locality the same year. Prof. B. W. Evermann re- 
ported it from Carroll County, Ind., March 27, 1885. I am indebted to 
Mr. E. M. Kindle for the information that Mr. Sam Hunter reported a 
pair of American Crossbills to have bred at Bloomington, Ind. in 1885. 
Mr. Hunter informed him they nested in a pine tree and that the nest 
was made exclusively of pine burrs. Mr. R. R. Moffitt informs me that 
Red Crossbills were taken in Tippecanoe County, Ind., in 1885. He says 
they nested there. Prof. B. W. Evermann noted them at Camden, Ind., 
March 27 and April 13, 1885, also a large flock at Burlington, Ind., April 
23, 1885. 
Mr. Wm. Brester reported its occurrence in the mountains of Western 
North Carolina in the summer of 1885 (The Auk., Vol. III., p. 107) and 
says : “ Seen only on the Black Mountains where it was numerous in 
small flocks throughout the balsam forests above 5,000 feet. At High- 
lands I was told that it regularly appeared in winter about the outskirts 
of the town.” Mr. Charles W. Richmond (The Auk., Vol. V., p. 22), gives 
upon the authority of Mr. Hugh M. Smith, the information that an adult 
male American Crossbill, accompanied by a young bird, was seen May 17, 
1885, within the District of Columbia. Prof. L. L. Dyche reports the 
occurrence, in the winter of 1885-6 of the Western Red Crossbill, Loxia 
cmvirostra stricklandi, at Lawrence, Emporia, Manhattan and Wakarusa, 
Kan. They were first observed November 1, 1885, and were last seen 
January 26, 1886 (The Auk., Vol. III., pp. 258-261). The following winter 
I was fortunate in securing, through the kindness of Mr. A. 0. Garrett, a 
series of specimens of Loxia curvirostra minor from Lawrence, Kan. March 
13 and 14, 1887, he obtained four which he sent me, and later he sent me 
nine others which were taken March 24 and 25. The meeting of the 
range of these two forms is of considerable interest. Prof. B. W. Ever- 
mann reports a crossbill, species not determined, from Bloomington, Ind., 
February 23, 1886, and another March 8, 1886. The same authority states 
the late Mr. C. H. Bollman found a few specimens of the Red Crossbill 
near Bloomington, Ind., July 10, 13 and 14, 1886. Mr. Arthur P. Chad- 
bourn says, in the summer of 1886 it was found in the White Moun- 
tains, N. H. (The Auk., Vol. IV., p. 105). Mr. George B. Sennett, in 
the same volume, p. 242, gives an account of finding this species in 
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the mountains on the borders of North Carolina and Tennessee in July 
and August 1886. Mr. Arthur T. Wayne, in the same volume, pp. 287-289, 
notes their abundance near Yemassee, S. C., in November and December, 
1886, and in January and February, 1887. He noted them again in the 
same vicinity November 20, 1887 (The Auk., Vol. V., p. 115), also during 
January, 1888 (Ibid, p. 208). Mr. Frank M. Chapman also reports them 
from Aiken, S. C., November 12, 1887, (Ibid, p. 324). Mr. G. G. William- 
son observed them in Monroe County, Ind., January 18 and February 6, 
1886. Mr. J. G. Parker reports them from Lake County, Ind., in May, 
1887. In the fall of 1887, I again observed them at Brookville, Ind. They 
came to feed among the pines in my yard. October 29 several were seen 
and they last appeared November 19. Prof. Walter Faxon and Dr. J. A. 
Allen give it as common in the White Mountains, N. H., in July 1874, 
June 1885 and June 1 886 (The Auk., Vol. V., p. 152.) Dr. J. A. Allen on the 
next page of the same number of “ The Auk,” speaks of a pair of Ameri- 
can Crossbills taken at Mandeville, La., March 27, 1888. Prof. B. W. Ev- 
ermann found them in Vigo County, Indiana in the spring of 1888. They 
were first seen February 6 and disappeared May 6. Mr. J. 0. Snyder 
found them at Waterloo, Ind., March 13 and 17, 1888. Mr. II. N. McCoy 
informs me they were quite common in Wayne county, Ind., in the early 
part of 1888. They were last seen April 5. Mr. G. G. Williamson saw 
six or eight individuals near Muncie, Ind., April 17, 1888. May 4 he saw 
three others. Mr. Otho C. Poling notes their occurrence in Adams county, 
111. He gives no account of their occurrence in summer (The Auk., Vol. 
VII., p. 239). Mr. John A. Balmer, informs me these Crossbills were 
found in the vicinity of Vincennes, Ind. in the winter of 1888-9. Mr. J. 
F. Clearwaters told me of the capture of two of these birds in Putnam 
county, Ind., in the winter of 1888. A flock of American Crossbills was 
seen by Mr. J. 0. Snyder at Waterloo, Ind., April 27, 1889. Mr. Stewart 
E. White informs me he found them common on Mackinack Island, 
Mich., August 3 to August 9, 1889. Mr. H. W. McBride wrote me of tak- 
ing three specimens at Waterloo, Ind., April 2, 1890. February 14, 1891, 
Mr. Stewart E. White saw six at Grand Rapids, Mich. He next noted the 
species March 16. He says it is quite rare in that vicinity. Mr. J. F. 
Clearwaters gave me the following account of their occurrence in Putnam 
county, Ind. : “ On July 27, 1891, Jesse Earll was down beside the old 
mill pond, where we collect all our water birds, and noticed five birds on 
the ground, apparently probing in the mud with their bills. As they 
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