nd grasses and are lined with horse hair.
Their nesting season includes all the summer months, they raising two
and sometimes three broods a season. The three to five eggs are pale
greenish blue with a few sharp blackish brown specks about the large
end. Size .80 x .55.

519b. SAN LUCAS HOUSE FINCH. _Carpodacus mexicanus ruberrimus._

Range.--Southern Lower California. A slightly smaller variety of the
preceding.

519c. SAN CLEMENTE HOUSE FINCH. _Carpodacus mexicanus clematis._

Range.--San Clemente and Santa Barbara Islands. Somewhat darker than the
last.

520. GUADALUPE FINCH. _Carpodacus amplus._

Range.--Guadalupe Island, Lower California.

Similar to the House Finch, but deeper red and slightly larger. Their
nesting habits and eggs are precisely like those of the House Finch but
the eggs average larger; size .85 x .60.

520.1. MCGREGOR'S HOUSE FINCH. _Carpodacus mcgregori._

Range.--San Benito Island, Lower California.

A newly made species, hardly to be distinguished from the last. Eggs
probably the same.

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521. CROSSBILL. _Loxia curvirostra minor._

Range.--Northern North America, breeding in the Alleghanies and from
northern New England northward; winters south to the middle portions of
the United States and casually farther.

The birds are very curious both in appearance and actions, being very
"flighty" and restless, and apt to remain to breed on any of the
mountains. They build during March or April, making their nests of
twigs, rootlets, moss, feathers, etc., and placing them in forks or on
branches of trees (usually conifers) at any height from the ground. The
eggs are greenish white, spotted with brown and with lavender shell
markings; size .75 x .55.

521a. MEXICAN CROSSBILL. _Loxia curvirostra stricklandi._

Range.--Mountain ranges from central Mexico north to Wyoming.

A larger variety of the preceding. The eggs will not differ except
perhaps a trifle in size.

522. WHITE-WINGED CROSSBILL. _Loxia leucoptera._

Range.--Northern North America, breeding in the Alleghanies and from
northern Maine northward; winters to middle portions of the United
States.

This species is rosy red with two white wing bars. Like the last, they
are of a roving disposition and are apt to be found in any unexpected
locality. Their