Loxia minor. Lake Umbagog, Maine. 1895. young birds of either species. Crossbills are evidently very Sept. I. numerous this autumn. I see or hear them everywhere and while (2) up the Cambridge to-day we were rarely out of the sound of their piping. Their abundance is evidently due to the fact that the spruces and balsams are loaded with cones which are fast turning brown. Sept. 10. During the day we were rarely out of sight or sound of Crossbills. Both species appear to be equally common. While I was watching the Ducks at Bottle Brook Pond a Red Crossbill sang for nearly an hour in one place, repeating its song at short regular intervals. There was little or no wind at the time and although the bird was perched on a spruce on the op- posite side of the pond fully 200 yards from me, its song fill- ed my ears. It was fully as loud as the song of a Purple Finch. I heard it to much better advantage here than in the case of the birds singing at Upton on August 29th for the singing there was more or less medley singing by several birds at once and moreover there were other noises such as the voices of men, of cattle, whereas here my songster had the whole sleeping forest to himself. His song did not vary in the least with the different repetitions but was invariably of eight notes or perhaps I should rather say of four notes repeated twice without any appreciable pause between the two