FDIC] 1 11s, smunows, are. 253 
     
    
   
   
    
     This report Lshows that in ten years the progeny of a single pair of 
     
     Sparrows might amount 1112.75 716, 983,698! It also states that during 
     
     the year 1886 the Spa1"‘1011 added approximately 516,500 square miles 
     
     to the territory occupied by it. The day is evidently near at hand, 
     
     therefore, when the English Sparrow will be in complete possession of 
     
     the country. 
     
    
   
   
    
     The Et‘norr: \\’ 11:1-11. \‘1-111114111 ilbwr mould/Ins) has become naturalized 
     
     in and about St. Louis, Missotu 1. 
     
    
   
   
    
     521. Loxia. curvirostra. minor (lire/nu). AMI-ZRU‘AN ('1tossn11.1.; 
     
     RED CnossulnL. 111/. a.~'1'ip.< ot' the. unindibles eroxsul; body dull red, 
     
     brighter on the rump, bro11'neron the baek; wings and tail t'nseous. All. '2. 
     
     Dull olive—green, yellower on the rump, indistinetly mottled with blaekish on 
     
     the head and back. mixed with whitish on the under parts. 1m. 5. —. imilar 
     
     to the 9 , or mixed red 11nd green. 1.., 1'11}; \\340:'1'.,:.'1i1‘; 1%.. '66. 
     
    

    
     [fang/afiBrL-eds from the Northern States no1tl111.11d.and. in the Allegha— 
     
     nies7 southward to the t'arolinas: in winter wanders irregularly southward, 
     
     sometimes reaching the Gulf States. 
     
    

    
     Washington. irregular W. \'., sometimes abundant. Sing Sing. irregu~ 
     
     lar; noted in almost every month. Cambridge, of irregular oeeurrenee at all 
     
     seasons. 
     
    

    
     .V 't. of' t11'igs and grasses, lined with bits of moss and rootlets, in conifer— 
     
     ous trees, fifteen to thirty feet up. [Sm/x, three to four. “ pale greenish, spotted 
     
     and dotted about the larger end with various shades ot‘ brown and lavender 
     
    
   
   
    
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     shell-markings7 1 .1) x o1. 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     These parrotlike Finches are famous for their erratic wanderings 
     
     Ther seem to ha1e no regard for the 111115 of migration which regu- 
     
     late the journeys of most. biids. and. liming no home ties, may linger 
     
     in regions 11hieh olTer them abundant fare without mueh regard to 
     
    

    
     asou. They nest early in the spring. sometimes when they are far 
     
     south of their breeding range. but they seem quite. unconcerned by 
     
     their unusual surroundings, and their young are born and raised in 
     
     a foreign land. 
     
    

    
     Coniferous forests form their natural surroundings. and their bills 
     
     are especially adapted to aid them in foreing otl’ the scales from the 
     
     cones 01' these trees to obtain the seed within. 
     
    

    
     They live in tioeks, and when in the trees elimh about like Parrots, 
     
     sometimes exhibiting as little fear of man as l’olly on her pedestal. 
     
     When feeding. they have a short. whistled -all—11ote: they take. wing in 
     
     a body, and their undulating flight is aeeompanied by a sharp Cliek- 
     
     ing or whistled note. ’l‘heir song is described as “varied and pleas- 
     
     ing, but not, powerful or in any respeet 1‘e111ai'kal,1le." 
     
    
   
   
    
     522. Loxia, leucoptera. (II/1:1. ‘1'1111'1-1-11‘1Mu-111 (‘1cossl111.1.. .1111. 5. 
     
     —--Tips ot'the mandibles crossed ,' body dull pink, brighter on the rump, more