Loxia leucontera . 
Lake TJmbagog, Maine. 
1887. Just after breakfast (at Lakeside) shot three Loxia leu- 
Sept .21 . contera in the balm-of-gilead poplar in front of the house. 
Two of them were females which had barely finished incubating 
the breast and abdomen being bare said slightly wrinkled. 
The male had the testes of half size. 
Sept.22. Just behind West’s I saw this morning a small flock of 
Loxia americana among which were two L. leucoptera . They were 
crowded 
together on a ijiece of bare ground where they were apparently 
A 
picking at the sandy soil. 
I 
Sept.26. White-winged Crossbills yesterday, one of them alighting 
on a lump of mud in the middle of the river (Cambridge River). 
Oxford Co., Maine. 
1899. Sept.25^ , 26 vv , 27 v \ Bethel. Under date of Sept.26th I 
Sept.22 wrote in my diary: "The country is flooded with Crossbills of 
to 
Oct.4. both species. I see or hear them almost hourly . L. minor is 
the more abundant of the two." 
