1891-92). ORNITHOLOGICAL REPORT, Hee 
meron.) OF “LHe "OCCURRENCE OF: THE: EVENING 
GROSHBEAK, (COCCOTAAAUSTES. VESPERTINA), 
IN ONTARIO DURING THE WINTER OF 
1889-90. 
Being a summary of recorded observations of the occurrence of this 
bird at Toronto, and other localities in Ontario; also notes on the 
occurrence and habits of the bird in the Province of Manitoba, 
collected and arranged by the Ornithological Sub-section of the 
Canadian Institute. 
January 11, Mr. C. H. Baird, of Paris, Ont., has informed me that a 
large flock of Grosbeaks were in that vicinity for some days at this date, 
none were collected.—J. EDMONDs. 
January 16, one female specimen collected from a flock of twenty 
observed near Lorne Park, about fourteen miles west of Toronto. The 
gizzard was distended with choke cherry and haw stones, crushed by 
the powerful beak of the bird.—E. E. THOMPSON. 
January 18, observed a solitary specimen on Wilcox St., feeding on 
mountain ash berries, but failed to collect it—G. E. ATKINSON, 
January 18, while walking in Rosedale I observed a large flock of 
birds resting on some oak trees, and soon made them out to be Evening 
Grosbeaks. I made a double shot but was much disappointed to find my 
second shot had brought down an adult male Pine Grosbeak, however, 
on stepping under the tree I was pleased to find as the result of the 
first shot, my first Evening Grosbeak. Soon after I collected another 
male and two fine females.—W. Cross. 
January 19, saw a flock of eight Evening Grosbeaks resting on a tree 
by the G. T. R. track, East Toronto. On the afternoon of the same day 
I observed a flock flying over Winchester St., within city limits. 
January 21, Messrs. Mitchell, Gray and Marsh collected twenty-four 
specimens, nine males and fifteen females, in Rosedale. I obtained six 
of them and found them all very fat. Their crops were full of unbroken 
pits of Prunus serotina, while their gizzards were crammed with the same 
broken, sharp sand, and a few fragments of a shell, probably a Helix.— 
PG Cox. 
January 21 to February 3, Evening Grosbeaks were common at the 
Highland Creek, about fourteen miles east of Toronto. None were 
observed at Claremont, ten miles to the north—JAs. ANNIS. 
January 22, I again visited the locality in Rosedale where I had found 
