Loxia minor. Lake Umbagog, Maine. 1895. which at once recalled the prominent ones in the song of the Aug. 30. Seaside Finch. As a whole the song was short, loud, decidedly (n.2). Finch-like in character, and rather musical and pleasing. It was wholly unlike the low, confused strain we sometimes hear from this Crossbill in Mass. in spring. Whether it is the full song or not I cannot tell, but in addition to the fact that the birds were singing so freely, I saw one pair engaged in copulating. Hence it seems only reasonable to assume that the flock--which by the way was evenly divided as to sexes-- represented a little colony of breeding birds. The White-winged Crossbills uttered their usual chatter- ing flight notes. Sept.1. On getting back to the Mill I went to the cellar of the Umbagog House and found a number of Crossbills on the exact spot of bare ground where I saw them two days ago. There were four L. leucoptera (three ♂♂ and a ♀) and about a dozen L. minor crowded thickly together on a space of less than a square yard all busily engaged in scooping up and swallowing large mouthfuls of the soil. I made sure this time that they were really eating it. On examining the spot closely after they had flown I found innumerable holes and short furrows made by their bills. When they flew up into the dead birches the Red Crossbills sang freely as on my first visit. There are no