489 Northwest Crow. Common. 575 d. Kadiak Pine Grosbeak. We saw a number of pine grosbeaks. The males were wont to perch on the tip top of a spruce tree and utter a jerky song at intervals of 2 or 3 minutes. They sang at all hours. One was sitting out in the heavy rain at 3 o'clock in the morning, singing away just as cheerily as tho it was a bright sunny day. The males were hard to approach when singing and would dive off into the brush before you could get near them. Their habits reminded me very much of the olivesided fly catcher in Southern Calif. Sometimes we found them feeding in the alders. They were then easily approached. We thought that they were feeding on the alder buds at first so they were picking them to pieces but we found later that they were after a small brown chrysalis within the buds. They also had eaten a number