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Evening Grosbeak in Pittsfield, Mass. 



It may be of interest to you, and as a 

 sequel to "My Experience with Evening 

 Grosbeaks," a story that I sent you last 

 Spring, I send you the following facts: 

 The Evening Grosbeaks visited my win- 

 dow until the 20th of May this year, feed- 

 ing from the trays and from my hand. 

 Imagine my surprise to see six Evening 

 Grosbeaks, four female and two male, 

 this morning (Nov. 19, 1916), about 

 9.30 o'clock in the same trees that they 

 were in the habit of alighting in last 

 Spring, one bird flew down on to the 

 piazza roof. I immediately put out the 

 trays with seed but all flew away and did 

 not return during the day. I was in 

 hopes that they would return in the win- 

 ter time, but did not expect them so early. 

 Last Sunday we had a snow storm, about 

 six inches fell on the mountains about this 

 city, I wonder if the birds followed the 

 storm, possibly it is a new record of early 

 appearance. — Charlotte M. Barrows, 

 113 Appleton Ave., Pittsfield, Mass. 



[The Berkshire Evening Eagle, pub- 

 lished at Pittsfield December 26, 1916, has 

 this additional note on Mrs. Barrows' 

 Evening Grosbeaks: 



"About three weeks ago, six or seven 

 Evening Grosbeaks showed up at the 

 Barrows home, but Mrs. Barrows had 

 not expected them and there was no 

 food tray out in the accustomed place. 

 After prospecting a while, the birds dis- 

 appeared and did not reappear until very 

 recently. Last year there were 42 in the 

 flock and this year about 26 have put 

 in an appearance. They are very tame 

 and will eat out of Mrs. Barrows' hand. 

 They apparently know her and do not 

 manifest any trepidation when she ap- 

 pears at the window. On the contrary 

 they crowd up close to the window to get 

 their food. Let a stranger enter the 

 room, however, and draw near to the 



window and the birds will flutter away 

 quickly to a safe distance and recon- 

 noiter for a while." — Ed.] 



Evening Grosbeaks in Fall River, 

 Mass. 



The Evening Grosbeaks have again 

 arrived in Fall River, Mass., for their 

 fourth visit, the other years being 191 1, 

 1914, 1916. 



The first one was seen on December 11; 

 but their very distinctive call was heard 

 on the tenth. This is the earliest date on 

 which they have ever been seen in Fall 

 River, as in the other years they have not 

 been seen until February. Last year, when 

 they were not reported to Bird-Lore, 

 they were seen for the first time on March 

 13, but were seen many times from that 

 date until early in May, as many as 

 fifteen at a time. This year the flock is 

 even larger, eighteen or nineteen having 

 been counted, with more males in full 

 plumage than usual, so it is a beautiful 

 sight. 



They feed occasionally in the box 

 elder trees, but also seem to find some- 

 thing on the ground they like, not as yet 

 coming for the sun-flower seeds which 

 have been put out. — Ellen M. Shove, 

 446 Highland Ave., Fall River, Mass. 



The Evening Grosbeak 

 in New York City 



Walking along the path by the upper 

 lake near the Botanical Garden Museum, 

 on the morning of Nov. 23, of this year, I 

 passed almost under three male Evening 

 Grosbeaks. They were feeding in an 

 ironwood tree on which a few old seeds 

 still remained, and allowed me to pass not 

 more than four or five paces away. While 

 looking at and admiring the birds, which 

 I had been acquainted with for many 



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