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andjPine Grosbeaks in three different places. [Of the last- 
Plne GroBbeaJt & amed 
species I could make no estimate as to numbers for 
twice out of the three times I merely heard them piping in 
the distance/] On the third occasion I came upon two, 
apparently a pair, feeding on the seeds of an ash which over¬ 
hangs the river at the "Holt". The male was an adult in 
unusually high plumage — one of the finest specimens I 
have ever seen. I spent some time watching him reach for¬ 
ward and dovm for one of the winged a.sh seeds and then turn 
it deliberately in his stout bill to shear off the wings 
which floated slowly down to the glassy river beneath. He 
psid little attention to me, although I sat directly beneath 
him within fifteen feet, holding on to a branch to keep the 
canoe from drifting away with the current. The piping 
whistle of these Grosbeaks bears some resemblance in tone 
to the scream of a Blue Jay. Once I mistook the distant 
cry of the latter for the call of a Grosbeak. 
I did not see nor hear a single bird of any kind 
on my way up river. A few Musk-rats were out in the 
twilight. Skunk tracks, half-obliterated, crossed a patch 
of snow in Bensen’s field. I should say they had been 
made within a week. Only one Rabbit track. 
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