213 
1865. 
Ampelis eedrorum, 
Middlesex County, Mass, 
Feb, 3. 
Largo flocks about Oarobridge all day. Towards 
night they flow off tov/ards the north-west. They con¬ 
tinued about Cambridge in large flocks for several days 
and in Watertown remained in immense flocks until late in 
the spring. 
June 3. 
Nest v/ith one egg (R.Doane). 
1866. 
Mar, 1. 
During a brisk snow-aquall the members of a largo 
flock of these birds, perched in the upper branches of 
an elm, were amusing themselves by hawking after snow¬ 
flakes, darting out into the air after them in precisely 
the manner in which they pursue and catch insects in 
August, 
/ 
1876. 
Mar, 22. 
A flock of thirteen near the Arsenal.- I shot ten 
of them not one of which had any wax-spots. 
" 29. 
A small flock in Watertov/n. 
