Plsctrophanos nivalis. 
1865. 
Peb. 14 
1866. 
Peb. 7. 
1868. 
Middlesex County, Mass. 
Shot six from a flock feeding on bare spots of 
gravel when the snow had blown away at Simon’s Hill 
Cambridge. Their crops were filled with hard, round, 
black seeds. I saw a flock in January and another ear 
in February. 
A flock of about a dozen alighted in the middle 
of a thick-branched apple-t roe (where I shot 6*^J,then 
flew to another, and finally took to the upper branches 
of an oak where they remained for somowimo. 
Five. 
Several. 
A large flock Lexington. 
A flock of about fifty. 
A small flock. 
Several (Concord). 
At least a dozen flocks. 
Numbers on the Charles River Marshes, large flocks 
continually coning ;md going. On the ground they run 
alrout nimbly like Sandpipers, appearing and disappearing 
among the drift wood and seavreed. 
Small flock. 
Several. 
One flock. 
Small flock. 
Twenty. 
One. 
+ n flocks. They appeared in large flocks 
e a ter part of December, coming immediately after 
