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resort to an island which is timbered in part with maple and box elder, 
the seeds of which they make their regular diet, as they remain hanging 
in bunches on the trees through the winter. 
During the winter in Manitoba they are usually seen in small parties, 
not exceeding six or eight in number, and are quiet and unobtrusive in 
their manner, flitting about the maples feeding, occasionally uttering their 
single call note, which very much resembles that of the European Bullfinch. 
karly in April they congregate into large flocks, in which the males 
preponderate, they are then restless, frequently rising from the tops of 
the trees and making long flights high in the air over their haunts. 
In view of the fact that this bird’s nest has never been found, it may be 
worth noting, that the Pine Grosbeak, its usual winter associate, whose 
nest and breeding place are known, arrives in this Province about the 
middle of November, and leaves here about the end of March, whilst the 
Evening Grosbeak arrives about six weeks earlier in the autumn, and 
remains about six weeks later in its winter quarters, from which I should 
infer that it does not go so far from its winter haunts to nest, as does the 
Pine Grosbeak. 
In January 1890, immense numbers of these birds were seen in eastern 
‘Canada and the United States, they having for some unexplained reason 
wandered far from their range. A most peculiar feature of this move- 
ment in Canada was the first appearance of the birds in the east, and 
their gradua] extension westward, exactly the reverse of what one would 
expect from birds whose habitation is the interior of north-western 
America. 
The first records I have of their occurrence at that time are from near 
Montreal in Quebec, and Kingston in eastern Ontario, during the first 
two weeks of January. At the end of this month they had reached 
Toronto, where I saw them in considerable numbers; at this time they 
were also seen in the States of New York, Massachusetts, and Connecticut. 
Early in February they had reached the States of Ohio, Michigan and 
Illinois. Judging from these records, I assume that a large number of 
the birds must have migrated from their summer home in an easterly 
‘direction, until they reached the Province of Quebec and some of the 
eastern States, thence they gradually worked westward along the Great 
Lakes to their proper habitation. —C. W. NASH. 
Observations on migration of Evening Grosbeaks, 1890.—On 
the 2Ist, January, 1890, Messrs Gray, Marsh, and Mitchell, reported a 
flock of about three-hundred Evening Grosbeaks, males and females, 
on Rosedale Heights, north of C. P. Railway track, they were 
feeding on the ground and seemed to find abundance of food. 
The subsequent examinations of the stomachs determined the food 
