Birds of the Adirondack Region 
C.H.Memam. 
60. Chrysomitris pinus ( Wilson ) Bonap. Pine Linnet; Siskin. — 
An irregular visitor ; sometimes breeding in vast multitudes, and during 
other seasons not seen at all. 
Ball N.O.O, O.Oot, 1882, p, 239 
Pine Pinches were abundant here in the 
Fall. Mr. Worthington secured sixteen at 
one shot. Some small boys killed two. — • 
Moses B. Griffinq , Shelter Island, N. Y. 
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Arrivals of Mig’y Bird*, Spring-1886 , 
Central Park, N. Y. City. A. G. Paine, Jr. 
March 13, Spinus pinus , (533). Pine Siskin. | 
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O.&a- Via U -af . 1883 . p.^ 
An interesting Flight of Pine Finches. — A. recent letter from John 
athan Dwight, Jr., of New York, contains the following interesting note 
which I have his permission to publish. 
“When at Monti cello (New York), early in October, I saw several small 
flocks of Pine Finches ( Chrysomitris pinus'). At Fort Hamilton, on Octo- 
ber 21, their numbers were phenomenal. There were hundreds, and per- 
haps thousands, in flocks of from a dozen to sixty or seventy. A curious 
fact is that when we first saw them — about nin e o’ clock A. M. — every flock 
was flying in a north-westerly direction, at a short distance from the shore, 
and all kept on without stopping as far as we could watch them. Mr. De 
L. Berier, who was with me, had never met with the species before. By 
posting ourselves in their line of flight we secured as many as we wanted. 
One shot brought down four and a Goldfinch (C. tnstis ). there being a 
few of the latter occasionally mingled with them. Later in the day we 
found C. pinus everywhere, usually feeding in corn-fields. They were 
equally abundant on the 22nd, but their morning flight was not repeated. 
The weather on the 21st was fair; on the 22nd, threatening rain. I can 
think of no satisfactory explanation of this mysterious migration, unless 
it be that the birds were intending to cross the Narrows; but if so, why 
did they not stop?” — William Brewster, Cambridge, Mass. 
Bull N.O.O, 8, Jan, 1833. p, ■ 
Oneida County, New York., 
William L, Ralph & Egbert Bag® 
Spinus pinus. — Messrs. Shepard and Hughes found these birds in large 
numbers near Remsen April 4 to 9, 1889, apparently mated and preparing 
to nest, but a careful search a week or two later failed to find them. 
&Uk« TIL July, 1890, p. &9t- 
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