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STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE BULLETINS. 



218-ol4-(lS9). Coccotliraiistes vespertiiia (Coop.). Evening Grosbeak. 



Winter; rarely seen; occasionally very common; type specimen describeil by 

 Cooper was from Sault Ste. Marie; E. E. Brewster reports a large flock at Iron 

 Mountain in the winter of 1882; Mr. L. H. Colburn sent me one shot from a flock 

 in Van Buren Co. in 1887; winter of 1889-90 at the college in flocks; "Ann Arbor 

 in 1887 and 1890 '" (Dr. J. B. Steere); " common in spring of 1890 at Port Sanilac " 

 (W. A. Oldtield); "very abundant at Alma and Saginaw in winter of 1889-90" 

 (Prof. C. A. Davis); "many seen at Albion in the spring of 1886'" (O. B. Warren); 

 " I took six out of a flock of about a dozen March 1, 1889. in Wayne Co., and my 

 father secured some at the same time from Ogemaw Co." (E. W. Durfce); "several 

 small flocks in Monroe Co. in winter of 1889-90" (Jerome Trombley); "attracted 

 into houses by feeding, caught and kept in cages for two years, all males and so 

 could not breed"' (L. W. Watkins); N. A.Eddy writes me that they have only been 

 seen twice at Bay City, March, 1887 and January, 1890; Dr. M. Gibbs saw this bird 

 in company with the Rose-breasted Grosbeak in Kalamazoo Co. in late April, 1879 

 (The Auk, April, 1892). For very full monograph of this bird see article by Prof. 

 A. W. Butler in The Auk. Vol. IX, July, 1892, pp. 238-247, also "Further Notes on 

 the Evening Grosbeak." The Auk. April, 1893. pp. 155-157. This article refers 

 largely to observations on this species in Michigan. He shows that this bird was 

 general in Michigan in the winter of 1890 from January to May. 



Genus PINICOLA Vieill. 





Pine Grosbeak, reduced. 



21J>-r>l.>-(ltM)). Piiiicola onncleator (Linn.). *Pine Grosbeak. 



Occasional in winter; often in large flocks; " in flocks of thousands in Jackson 

 Co. in 1881. where they were very tame" (Dr. H. A. Atkins); "rare straggler 

 at Albion, and common at Palmer, Marquette Co., in autumn and even to early 

 winter" (O. B. Warren); we have one in our museum from Ionia Co., taken in 

 January; Mr. W. A. Oldfield took one specimen at Port Sanilac in the winter of 

 1892; " common in Bay Co. from November, 1883, to March 10, 1884 " (N. A. Eddy in 

 O. and O., Vol. IX. p. 41); "occasionally a straggler from the north in Kalamazoo 

 Co. in winter" (Dr. M. Gibbs); "Keweenaw Point" (Kneeland); "not uncommon 



