Loxia minor. Lake Umbagog, Maine. 1895. phrases. The opening two notes in each phrase were sweet and Sept.10. full and resembled those of Spinus tristis, the closing two (2) notes were exceedingly like one of those in the song of Melos- piza fasciata, These latter are the ones that I compared (Aug.29) to those of the Seaside Finch but they are much more musical and more like the voice of the Song Sparrow. The effect of the whole song is highly pleasing and the bird de- serves fairly high rank as a songster among the Fringillidae. I should think that if it were heard too often however, the song might become possibly a little tiresome. The notes are given with a curious distinctness and deliberation as if the bird were keeping its voice within rigid restraint. Sept. 25. On landing at Upton I went at once to the cellar where the Umbagog House formerly stood. The Crossbills were there, -fifteen or twenty birds representing both species- eating dirt on the very same spot where they were similarly employed Aug. 30. The whole space which they have worked over is less than a yard square. I shot a pair of Red Crossbills but the male lodged and I did not get him. The female had the belly bare and wrinkled but when I skinned her I found that she had passed the stage of incubation by at least three or four weeks Like the White-wings shot yesterday she had not moulted but was in very ragged