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, I may add 
that the Wliite-winged Crossbill (O'. Zew- 
coptera) is known to hatch in February, 
the female setting upon her eggs, with the 
the snow all around her, were seen in the 
pine woods of the Dutch village near 
Halifax in February. Chief Justice Sir 
William Ritchie assured me that he had 
seen them in his own woods, near St. J ohn, 
breeding in February, our coldest month. 
— j Bernard Gilpin , Halifax , N. S. 
cr. &t>. Til. Mat. \h . 18 8 2 . p . 1 3. i Hi i . 
Nesting of the White-winged Cross- 
bill. 
A pair of White-winged Crossbills ( Loxia 
leucoptera ) have lately built their nest near 
our city. The nest, which contained, on the 
sixteenth of March of this year, three eggs, 
was built on a spruce tree about twenty feet 
from the ground. The outer part of the nest 
is constructed of small twigs woven together, 
the inner part of moss and fine dead grass; 
there was no clay or feathers used in building 
the nest. The eggs were white with brown 
spots. The female was on the nest and al- 
lowed a visitor to come within a few feet before 
leaving it, when she joined the cock bird, a 
fine red fellow who was singing on the top of 
a neighboring tree. The Crossbills had been 
unusually plentiful this winter near Halifax, 
but I have never known before of an instance 
of their breeding here. I do not know of any 
other bird except the Eaven that nests at this 
season in this climate. Thomas I. Egan. 
Halifax, Nova Scotia. O & O. XFV. Apr. 1889 p.57 
