1. Groth 1987 journal 222. Eastern Trip - British Columbia Aug 3 Almost all (or perhaps all) of the red crossbills (cont'd) I saw here were striped birds, some molting into adult plumage. All red crossbills were of call types 3 and 4, with type 3 more frequently heard. I collected 7 individuals here. This did not seem like a current breeding ground for crossbills. Some white-winged crossbills flew over the camp. The weather was good this day, with some clouds and some sun. The wind was slight. Aug 4 The morning was heavy rain. I packed up and left to drive S by 8:00am. One reason, besides that I wanted to find breeding adult red crossbills, was that the holiday weekend was over and the roads here were noisy with logging trucks and there was an active operation not far away. I drove through the rain to Prince George, then S as far as 70 Mile House. All of the forests here looked fairly good for crossbills, with cones on almost every species of conifer. Further S, now lodgepole pine and douglas fir replaced white spruce. I stopped for an hour at 70 Mile