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and upper tail coverts broadly tipped with rose-red ; the flanks and 

 under tail coverts the same, but paler. Wings very long and 

 pointed, the 3 first quills nearly equal. 



EVENING GROSBEAK. 



(Fringilla vespertina, Cooper, Rich, and Swains. North. Zool. ii. 

 p. 269. pi. 68. NuTT. Man. Orn. i. p. 526.) 



This very brilliant and remarkable bird is a common 

 inhabitant of the maple groves which occupy the plains of 

 the Saskatchewan ; and hence arises its common aboriginal 

 Cree name of the Sugar-Bird (Seesehasquit-pethaysisli). It 

 arrives in the fur countries with the last of the summer resi- 

 dents considerably beyond the commencement of the month 

 of June. It also frequents the borders of Lake Superior 

 and the eastern declivity of the Rocky Mountains, in the 

 latitude of SQ^. 



ROSE-BREASTED GROSBEAK. 



(Fringilla ludoviciana, Bonap. Nutt. Man. Orn. i. p. 527.) 

 On the dreary and desolate coast of Labrador Mr. Audu- 

 bon found this species breeding commonly. In the interior 

 of the fur countries, however, it appears to be sufficiently 

 rare, since merely a single specimen was obtained near the 

 Saskatchewan on Sir John Franklin's first Expedition, and 

 none afterwards. 



SAFFRON-HEADED TROOPIAL. 



(Icterus xant/iocephalus, Bonap. Synops. p. 52. No. 52. /. icteroce- 

 phalus, Idem. Orn. i. p. 27, pi. 3. Nutt. Man. Orn. i. p. 176. 

 Agelauis xanthocepkalus, Swains. North. Zool. ii. p. 281.) 



This bird is very numerous in the fur countries, its sum- 

 mer range, as well as that of the Red-Winged Blackbird, 



