[904] The Evening Grosbeak, 



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Then in March, 1883, Mr. Mcllwraith himself saw two near West 

 Flamboro. 



The largest mig-ration seems to have been in 1890, when they 

 were frequent about Kingston and elsewhere, and a flock was 

 noticed as far east as Quebec. Again in 1896 two were seen at 

 Kingston. Then none until the present year, 1904, when, during 

 January and February, they have been observed and obtained 

 about Kingston. This completes the record for Ontario to 

 date. 



With regard to the nest of the bird and its breeding habits, 

 the honor of discovering it rests with Mr. Jno. Swinbourne, of 

 Springerville, Arizona, who found it on 5th June, 1884, in a 

 canon 7,000 feet above sea level. {Vtde Auk, vol. v, p. 113,) The 

 next nest was recorded by Mr. W. E. Byrant, as taken by a Mr. 

 Fiske, of the U. S. Geol. Sur. on a hill-side in Yolo Co., Cal., in 

 1887. The third and last record I can find was a nest and four 

 eggs collected by Mr R. H Beck in the Sierra Nevada Mts., in 

 1896, a beautiful colored plate of which is published as a supple- 

 ment in the Nidologist, Sep. 1896, vol. iv, No. i. 



Note.— Mr. Edwin Beaupr^ has sent for public:ition in The 

 Naturalist his notes on the occurrence of the evening grosbeak, 

 The substance of these notes has been embodied in Mr. Young's 

 article above, but Mr. Beaupr6 says further: "The two 

 flocks that visited the city spent their time feeding on the fruit of 

 Manitoba maple. Locally, this winter's visitation makes the third 

 record since 1890. From the 22nd to the 25th I saw them each 

 day ; one evening when I visited the street on which the maples 

 are growing, I found three richly colored males whose striking 

 plumage of white, yellow and black, brightened by the departing 

 rays of the wintry sunset, seemed entirely out of contrast with 

 their surroundings of bleached and withered fruit on which they 

 were sumptuously feasting. 



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