Loxia minor . 
Lake Uinbagog, Maine. 
1395. phrases. The opening two notes in each phrase were sweet and 
Sept.10. full and resembled those of Spinus tristis . the closing two 
notes were exceedingly like one of those in the song of Melos — 
piza fasciata .- These latter are the ones that I compared 
(Aug.29) to those of the Seaside Finch but they are much more 
musical and more like the voice of the Song Sparrow. The 
effect of the whole song is highly pleasing and the bird de- 
serves fairly high rank as a songster among the Fringill Idae . 
I should think that if it were heard too often however, the 
song might become possibly a little tiresome. The notes are 
given with a curious distinctness and deliberation as if the 
bird were keeping its voice within rigid restraint. 
On landing at Upton I went at once to the cellar where 
Sept. 25 
the Uinbagog House formerly stood. The Crossbills were there, 
-fifteen or twenty birds representing both species- eating 
dirt on the very same spot where they were similarly employed 
Aug. 30. The whole space which they have worked over is less 
than a yard square. I shot a pair of Red Crossbills but the 
male lodged and I did not get him. The female had the belly 
bare and wrinkled but when I skinned her I found that she had 
passed the stage of incubation by at least three or four weeks 
Like the White-wings shot yesterday she had not moulted but 
