^wirst seen Oct.IGth; afterwards common in flocks of from five*. 
^ six to twenty-five or thirty. Take the Pin. T -nets they eo 
exclusively on the seeds of birches. They were genera y - 
'rihuten throughout the woods and did not appear to haunt any pa - 
ticulafc kind of -round. Among eight which 1 shot from one flock 
were two adult males with rosy breasts. One of the cards sx) a 
this time was only slightly wounded, and being put in a cage fed 
readily at once on'bread crumbs as well as T» hsta on l 
U was very tame and seemed to be contented wit i it... -J • /f*' 
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Lake Umbagog, Maine. 1890. 
