68 CoiTES's History of the Evening (rrosbecik. 



speedily became known to ornithologists of all parts of theworld. 

 The actual discovery of so welcome an addition to onr recognized 

 Fauna was made by Mr. Schoolcraft, who secured the original exam- 

 ple of the species in April of the year 1823, at or near the Saute 

 Sainte Marie, Michigan. This individual, upon its presentation to the 

 Lyceum just named, became the basis of Mr. Cooper's communica- 

 tion, and was supposed for a little while to be the only representa- 

 tive of the species known to naturalists ; but other specimens soon 

 became available for the purposes of science. Thus Bonaparte, who 

 first figured the interesting acquisition, in 1828, states that at this 

 date he had examined two other specimens, besides Mr. School- 

 craft's, which had been shot early in the spring on Lake Athabasca, 

 and were preserved in the Leadbeater collection in London ; one of 

 them serving him for the elaborate description which he gives in 

 his "American Ornithology." Soon after this, we find Sir John 

 Richardson's allusion to specimens sent to the authors of the "Fauna 

 Boreali-Americana " by Mr. Prudens, Chief Trader at Carlton House ; 

 and this author remarks that the bird is a common inhabitant of 

 the maple groves of the Saskatchewan region, — a circumstance from 

 which its Cree Indian name Seesebasquit-jirtlnn/sish, or Sugar-Bird, is 

 derived.* A very characteristic likeness of the male bird of natural 



[Fruifjillit vespertina, Coop.], etc., habitant le tcrritoire X.-O. des Etats- 

 Unis ; par William Cooper Feruss. Bull. 2' sect. VII, 1826, p. 110. 



Extrait des Annales du Lyeee d'Hist. Nat. de New York, I, 1825, pp. 219- 

 222. 



1827. Lesson, R. P. Description d'une espeee muivelle de pros-bee [Frin- 

 gUla vespertina, Coop.], habitant la partie nord-ouest des Etats-Unis; par 

 William Cooper. . . . Feruss. Bull. 2* sect. XII. 1827, pp. 267, 268. 



Tin', des Annal. de Philos. XI, 1826, pp. 134-1:.*:. 



1832. Cooper, W. Neue Gattung Kernbeisser [Fringilla vespertina]. 

 Oken's Isis, 15,1. XXV, 1832, p. 1073. 



Auszug mis d. Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. New York, I, 1825, pp. 219-2-JJ. 



1855. Cottle, T. Coccothraustes vespertina. — Evening Grosbeak. Canad. 

 Journ. Ill, 1855, p. 287. 



Historical and descriptive ; occurrence of the Bpecies in ( lanada. 



1869. Kiktlam), .1. 1'. [Occurrence of Hesperiphona vespertina in Ohio.] 

 Ohio Fanner, IX, March 21. 1860. 



The original ascription of the species to Ohio; but it bad been observed in 

 tint State in 1847. 



* The accompanying descriptions an' of a male killed <>n the Saskatchewan in 

 1829, and of a supposed female from Borne locality not stated ; tin' latter is, 

 however, tin' immature male; for Bonaparte, in stating that the female scarcely 



