Loxia leucQ'fitera . 
Wellesley, Cambridge and vicinity, Mass. 
1399. 
The flock worked busily and for the most part silently, each 
November . 
bird clinging to the upper end of a cone and bending forward 
(2). 
and downward as it pried out the scales which contained fehe 
seeds . 
On the 50th I heard the flight call of White-winged 
Crossbills near Payson Park and on the 29th at Fresh Pond 
Grove where Faxon also saw seven birds on the 25th in the ar- 
bor vitae hedge along the driveway. 
C ambr i dg e , Mass. 
1399. 
Heard this forenoon at the hemlock grove by Fresh Pond 
Nov. 29. 
a flock of White-wings which were apparently flying. On the 
25th Mr. Faxon found seven Crossbills of this species feeding 
in arbor vitae trees along the dr iveway that leads to the 
grove. 
On the morning of the 9th I heard the flight call of 
December . 
this species as I was walking in the garden over which the 
bird or birds were apparently flying. At about the same time 
Walter Deane saw a flopk. of six in a white pine on the Law- 
rence place, Brattle Street. Other flocks were reported in 
the neighborhood of Cambridge but the consensus of opinion 
seems to be that the species was less numerously represented 
here this month than last (A flock of from 50 to 100 was seen 
in W.Roxbury by Dr.A.L.Reagh on Dec. 20). 
