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to me, although I knew it to be a Grosbeak. It proved to be a male 
Evening Grosbeak, and was shot in the asylum grounds. 
The birds remained with us several weeks, in fact I saw one early in 
March, feeding on mountain ash berries. In the asylum grounds they 
were to be found very constantly, in the tamarac and mountain ash 
trees, and several times I saw them in the tamarac with the Pine Gros- 
beaks, which were quite common in the winter of 1890. 
On the 13th or 14th January, 1890, Mr. Geo. Nicol of Cataraqui, shot 
a male and female Grosbeak (Evening), and sent them to Mr. R. M. 
Horsey, who wrote a letter on the subject to the British Whig, January 
17th, and Mr. Horsey corroborates my observations in regard to the 
time the birds remained with us, in the following note: “I have a speci- 
men (male) given me by Sir Richard Cartwright’s gardener, which he 
procured about the end of January, and which he shot at the “ Maples,” 
Sir Richard Cartwright’s summer residence on the banks of the St. 
Lawrence, a short distance from Kingston, where I understood from him 
the birds remained until early in March, or towards the middle of the 
month.” 
In the asylum grounds the ash berries seem to have been the chief 
attraction, but the birds were not nearly so numerous with us as at the 
eastern part of the city, and along the banks of the St. Lawrence. The 
reason for their presence there was that the woods are full of red cedars, 
and Barriefield Common, on the eastern side of Kingston, is covered with 
junipers. The birds subsisted on the berries of the red cedar and juniper. 
Mr H. Stratford, taxidermist, tells me that the crops of the many 
birds he mounted, were invariably filled with the red cedar and juniper 
berries. 
There is no record of any of the birds having been kept in captivity 
and | cannot find out how many specimens were procured, but Mr. 
Stratford, the taxidermist, mounted several for different persons, and 
Mr. Horsey had three. The birds were quite common, and little 
difficulty would have been experienced in securing a large number. In 
the asylum grounds I would not allow any of them to be destroyed, 
after the first had been shot. 
Mr. Stratford tells me that shortly after the arrival of the Grosbeaks 
here, they were observed in Perth, (Lyn), and if you wish I can find out 
the particulars regarding this, as Perth, (Lyn), is further east than 
Kingston. My impression is that the migration took place from the 
west, as the dates that the birds were observed in the western part of 
Ontario, were certainly earlier than our dates. 
I find that I made a slight mistake in my notes on Grosbeaks: instead 
