Winter Birds at Newton Highlands, Massachusetts. — We are 
enjoying a remarkable flight of winter birds seldom seen here. Already 
(December 4, 1916) Siskin’s ( Spinus pinus), Acadian Chickadees ( Pen - 
thestes hudsonicus littoralis), Redpolls ( Acanthis linaria linaria ) American 
and white-winged Crossbills ( Loxia curvirostra minor and L. leucoptera), 
Pine Grosbeaks ( Pinicola enucleator leucura), Evening Grosbeaks ( Hesperi - 
phona vespertina vespertina), Snow Buntings ( Plectrophenax nivalis nivalis), 
Snowy Owl ( Nyctea nyctea), and Rough-legged Hawks ( Archibuteo lagopus 
sancti-johannis) are here, many of them in much greater abundance than 
for many years. — Mrs. George H. Mellen, Newton Highlands, Mass. 
■ XXXIV.^cm. I9/7, 97,-93, 
