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the center and adjusted the stick into the structure on the outside. 

 It was a hot day, in the high 80s, and the female was panting with 

 mouth open and wings partly spread. The male accompanied the 

 female on each trip to and from the nest but did not help in the build- 

 ing. He would watch her intently at the nest while perched in a 

 branch a few feet below." 



J. Stokley Ligon (1923) found five nests of the eastern evening 

 grosbeak on July 28, 1923, on Whitefish Point, Lake Superior, in 

 Michigan, about 20 miles from the Canadian shore. One young bird 

 was found on the ground, and the nest from which "it had fallen was 

 about 25 feet up on a horizontal limb of a white pine, well concealed 

 by small branches and needles." He climbed to this nest and ex- 

 amined it, which "was practically indistinguishable from nests of 

 the Black-headed Grosbeak of the West, being almost, if not quite, 

 as frail of construction. * * * The body of the nest was composed 

 of hard, clean sticks and Imed with black and brown hair-like rootlets, 

 with a sprinkling of moss between the outer body and lining." 



Thomas S. Roberts (1932) quotes an account published by A. G. 

 Lawrence in the Winnipeg Free Press, June 20, 1930, of two nests 

 near Winnipeg found by L. E. McCall, of Selkirk, Manitoba. One 

 nest was "placed in a crotch 28 feet up in a Manitoba maple situated 

 in a garden bordering the public sidewalk, and * * * well concealed 

 except on one side." The other nest was 19 feet up in an elm over- 

 hanging the road, "on a fork of a long overhanging branch." Both 

 nests contained eggs and the two birds sat closely. 



Dm-ing the first three decades of the present century, while the 

 eastern evening grosbeak was extending its summer range eastward, 

 many records of probable nesting were based on females showing 

 brood patches and on adults seen feeding juveniles. At Woodstock, 

 Vt., Richard M. Marble (1926) saw four young come to a feeding 

 station with their parents. "The little ones were not quite as large 

 as the adults, their tails were very short and many downy feathers 

 still showed on their heads." 



H. R. Ivor sent Mr. Bent an interesting account of some evening 

 gi-osbeaks he had in his aviary for several years. He told especially 

 of one pair that mated, built a nest, laid four eggs, and succeeded in 

 raising one young (see plates 12, 13, and 14). J. H. Fleming (1903) 

 also records the breeding of this species in captivity. 



Louise de Kiriline Lawrence, my husband, and I found a nest near 

 a forest edge in Lauder Township, Nipissing District, Ontario, on 

 June 21, 1945 (Speirs and Speirs, 1947). The nest was 55 feet up in 

 a white pine and very well concealed. It contained at least three 

 young and through a 47X telescope we were able to watch the young 

 being fed. I spent 3 days observing this nesting. After the young 



