BULLETIN 



OF THE 



NUTTALL ORNITHOLOGICAL CLUB. 



Vol. IV. APRIL, 1879. No. 2. 



HISTORY OF THE EVENING GROSBEAK.* 



BY ELLIOTT COUES. 



A bird of the most distinguished appearance, indeed, is the Even- 

 ing Grosbeak, t whose very name of the " Vesper-voiced " suggests 



* By permission, from advance copy of "Birds of the Colorado Valley," 

 Vol. II. —Ed. 



t Hesperiphona vespertina. 



Fringilla vespertina, Cooper, Ann. Lye. N. Y. I, Pt. II, 1825, 220 (descr. 

 orig. Saute Ste. Marie, Michigan). — Coop., Annals of Philos. XI, 1826, 135. 



— Less., Feruss. Bull 2° Sect. VII, 1826, 110. — Bp., Ann. Lye. N. Y. II, 

 1826, 113, No. 188. —Less., Feruss. Bull. 2° Sect. XII, 1827, 267. — Bp., Zobl. 

 Journ. IV, 1828, 2. — Bp., Am. Orn. II, 1828, 75, pi. 15, f. 1. — Nutt., 

 Man. I, 1832, 594. —Cooper, Isis, XXV, 1832, 1073. — Acd., 0. B. IV, 

 1838, 515, pis. 373^, 425?. —Towns., Journ. Phila. Acad. VIII, 1839, 154. 



Coccothraustes vespertina, Sw. & Rich., F. B. A. II, 1831, 269, pi. 68. — Bp., 

 C. & G. L. 1838, 30. — Arm, Syn. 1839, 134. — Aud., B. A. Ill, 1841, 217, 

 pi. 207. — Henry, Pr. Phila. Acad. 1855, 312 (New Mexico). — Cottle, 

 Canad. Journ. Ill, 1855, 287 (Canada ; historical and descriptive). 



Coccothraustes vespertinus, Gamb., Journ. Phila. Acad. I, 1847, 49. — Scl., 

 P. Z. S. 1860, 251 (Orizaba). —Scl., Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 123. — Ridgw., 

 Ann. Lye. N. Y. X, 1874, 371 (Illinois). 



Cocoborus vespertinus, Hoy, Pr. Phila. Acad. 1853, 383 (Wisconsin). 



Hesperiphona vespertina, Bp., C. R. XXXI, 1850, 424 ; C. A. I, 1850, 505.— 

 Bd., B. N. A. 1858, 409. — Henry, Pr. Phila. Acad. 1859, 107 (N. Mexico). 



— Coop. & Suckl., P. R. R. Rep. XII, Pt. II, 1859, 196. — Kirtland, Ohio 

 Farmer, IX, of Mar. 24, 1860 (Ohio). — Wheaton, Ohio Agr. Rep. for 1860, 

 1861. — Blakist., Ibis, 1862, 5 ; 1863, 69 (Fort Carlton). — Coues, Pr. Phila. 

 Acad. 1866, 80 (Arizona). — McIlwraith, Pr. Essex Inst. V. 1866, 88 ("Wood- 

 stock, Canada). — Lawr., Ann. Lye. N. Y. VIII, 1866, 289 (near New York 

 City). — Coues, Pr. Essex Inst. V, 1868, 280, 312 (Canada and New York — 



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