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Loxia curvirostra amoricana. 
186 «. 
Middlesex County, Mass. 
Oct . 
7. 
Several. 
« 
10. 
Several. 
Nov. 
6. 
Several with White-winged 
a 
13. 
A small flock in Waltham : 
About half were red males. 
Dec. 
12. 
Several. 
a 
26 
1869. 
Jan, 
31. 
A large flock. 
Peb. 
24. 
Several. 
Mar. 
18. 
One. 
m 
28, 
One. 
Apr. 
Ma 
19. 
Small flock. 
May 
17. 
A male. 
u 
21. 
Several. 
June 
1. 
Actually saw three; also 
0 
3. 
A flock. 
1870. 
• 
July 
25. 
Four (Cambridge). 
Sept, 
22- 
Dec. 
31. 
Abundant about Cambridge. 
27. 
Those seen ealrly in the 
x-«sTij.ess, always apparently flying about, 
n er alighting. Late in October they took to the 
grojes of Pinas ,ri£i^. Here they wore tame and silent 
feeding eagerly on the seeds of the cones and seldom 
flying even when a gun was fired directly under them. 
They uttered a musical conYersational chatter, and a 
loud clear call-note. The males and females were 
Th®y ware sometimes accompan- 
led fay White-winged Crossbills. Pew flocks exceeding 
^ noticed that the same flock would 
found in the same place day after day, and that if 
all v/ere killed no others took their places. 
Red-polJsr ^ fooding on the gound in company with 
