1874. 
(Nov.80) 
Doe. 5. 
11 . 
16. 
1875. 
Jan 24. 
28. 
Fob. 18 . 
Pinicola enoucloator 
Miridlosox County, Mass. 
Th( 
are taroo tliouuh restless 
A passing Tloek 
may be easily called do’.vn by imitating idioir pec, liar 
'iVliistlo. Some of tnoi,r lower notes are very ventrilo — 
Q. ol in cnarac^jor. I ^ ink t.hey a,ro t-.oxr iSeoding large¬ 
ly on the seeds of th > v/hite pine cones although they 
prefer t:iose of the cedar berries. 
Large niimbors in i.incoln. I shot tvro adult males. 
At th.) repOi-t of a gun a i'lock will scattv^r in all riirec- 
tions each bird di'/ing and vdiirling about; after all 
has bocorno quiet one of them will begii:, his ’wliis fling call 
from some tree top and in a fey/ minutes the others ap¬ 
pear and the flock is speedily reunited. 
•■'umbers in Helrnont; no red r:ales ariong the 
rn 
low- 
e '/■• 1 i- 
A small flo'ck beliind fit.iuburn; 
plumage, v/as practicing; .singinH a 
one, a male in gra;.^ 
line liotes se /oral o.f vyhicn rorninded di 
P urple Pinch... 
e-d really ut cored some 
of tliose of' the 
Tv^o large flocks in ’h-ookline^ one containing at 
least t.nirty birds, but neither a^iy red males. 
Tv/'o in -.'aYerly fo-iding on privet berries, 
iVhilo soanding among the cedars in V/ater tov/n a flock 
of about a dozen Grosbeaks irhirled over head and alight¬ 
ed near me. The next rnonion t one of them broke out in- 
Again and 
to a loud, rapid and most boa rciful song. 
i? 
• ar. 
2 
|i again was .uxs repeated, ins rich, beautiful notes ring- 
1 mg aico.ng .he tr-'O s. I had a good viov/ of all the 
biras m this flock and am sure that there wor ■ no rod 
|i males a.eoiig .horn. T,eo, song of this bird rosomblos 
!• that of the Purple Finch, and like it was very rapid and 
ecscatic; ^it was rno:-o -Yariod, however, and making due 
allov/anc > .i or the charm of novelty was, in my opinion 
a much finer p-erf ormanco. Some of its notes v.ore ictm.- 
iical with those of the Purple Pinch but the performance 
as a vhiole waswilder, sweeter, and characteristic by 
: more perfect abandomri. , 
^ Two wuh Purple Pinches among the cedars in Water- 
|; oo^n. msily engaged in breaking open the berries. 
f jfhh: rr'T'Tf alighted on 
r ■7'’° o.Dorating on Ito 
'-I-.; Vi f-Uit, rolling It over in their bills 
on... s.^ -ds ’w i 0 forced oug and s')c ;rod They 
wono so .a„,o that I got ,,xthd„ a -v, fnot of thorng 
