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Wiiite]' rc't'ords: Bo/enian. Januaiy 2, 1911 (Saunders, 19i;5a, p. llti); 

 Gallatin Valley, three seen January 1, 1917 (Lundwall, MS); Bitterroot Val- 

 ley, common in winter (Bailey, ^LS) ; Helena, one, February 27, 1911; not com- 

 mon at Kalispell in winter (Sloanaker, MS). 



Spring and fall records : In most localities the Western Evening Grosbeak 

 is most commonly seen in spring and fall, occurring at those seasons in large 

 flocks. Gallatin County, common from March 20 to April 9, 1909, and one 

 male seen May 8, 1909; Helena, flocks abundant from :\larch 10 to 28, 1911; 

 Tongue River, three on April 26, 1891 (Thorne, 1895, p. 216) ; Bitterroot Val- 

 ley, seen up to Ai)fil li». lilll, and common till June in 1908 (Bailey, MS). 

 Fall: Bozeman, November 2(;, 1908. and October 16, 1910. 



204. Pinicola enucleator montana Ridgway 



R()(M<v Mountain Pine Grosbeak 



A rare summer resident of the Hudsonian zone in high mountains probably 

 throughout the western half of the state. Occurs freipiently but erratically in 

 migrations and in winter in the valleys and lower mountains of the western half 

 of the state. In the summer time it is rare, and it occurs so high in the monn 

 tains that few observers get to see it. Records at this season are therefore few. 

 It was first found near ^lystic Lake, Gallatin County, and on Traill Creek, Park 

 County (Richmond and Knowlton, 1894, }). ^OS), and from these birds the sul)- 

 species was first described (Ridgway, 1898, p. ;^19). I have met with this spe- 

 cies in summer in the Hudsonian zone in Gallatin County, and in Teton and 

 northern Lewis and Clark counties. One individual male was seen at Flathead 

 Lake, June 27, 1914, in the Transition zone (Saunders, 1915b, p. 110). It lias 

 been noted in the Hudsonian zone near Missoula, July 81. 1915 (Kittredge, 

 MS). These appear to be all the summer records. The nest has evidently 

 never been found in the state. 



In migrations and in the winter it is much more common and occui's in 

 large flocks. In Gallatin and Park counties it is abundant in migrations. 1 

 noted large flocks on Reese Creek, Park County, October 22, 1908, and in Tom 

 Minor Basin, October 29, 1908. In spring it was noted at Bozeman until April 

 6, 1909, and on Middle Creek in the lower mountains, until .Alay 7, 1909. On 

 the Sun River, Lewis and Clark County, I found it still in the Hudsonian /xmc 

 on October 22, 1911. In southwestern ^Montana, where observations in the moun- 

 tains for two seasons did not disclose its presence in summer-, it appeared in 

 large flock's in fall. Tiie earliest flock was seen in tlie Hudsonian zone near Elk 

 Park, September 8, 1910. This was immediately following the bad fire season 

 of 1910, when two or three lieavy snow storms had left about eight inches of 

 snow on tiie ground. Tlie hirge numl)ers of tlie l)ii-ds so early in the season, con- 

 sidering that they had not been found in the region in summer, surpriseti me. 

 They were also noted in this region. November 1, 1910, on Dry Cottonwood 

 Creek, and on Divide Creek, April 2(i, 1910. In the Bitterroot Valley a bird of 

 this subs{)ecies was taken from a flock of six on October 5, 1910 (Bailey, MS). 

 At ^lissoula, tills species is found all winter and has been noted from December 



