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Loxia leucoptera.
Maine (Lake Umbagog).
1874.
Aug. 25. Heard some flying overhead.
Sept. 7. Heard the chatter of a flock passing over the woods.
1876.
June 5. Two seen , the first this season.
1880.
May 25. Shot a pair in the Canada Plum trees into the garden.
They had evidently just finished brooding.
Sept. 9. A flock of about a dozen alighted for a moment on a
mud-flat bordering the Lake, then whirled off over the
woods.
13. Heard a flock passing over head.
1882.
Oct. 8-22 Heard on the 18th, and several small flocks seen
or heard daily after this date. L.americana was not
noted.