PINE GROSBEAK. 
the eye yellow, crown sepia or smoky black, tail and wings 
the same, but the upper, shorter wing-feathers white, sides 
of the head and the neck brown-olive, rump, belly, and 
scapulars (i.e. feathers at top of wing over the white ones) 
dull yellow. Nest not very well known, lodged fifteen feet 
or more above the ground, usually in an evergreen tree, 
and built of twigs, bark, rootlets, ete., lined with softer’ 
material. Egg, pale blue-green flecked with brown ocher. 
The range of this species is from western Alberta, southern 
Saskatchewan and Manitoba to Missouri, Ohio, and Ken- 
tucky, andirregularly to Pennsylvania, New York, and New 
England. \It breeds only in the extreme northwest. 
The Song of the Evening Grosbeak is heard only within 
the limits of its breeding grounds; there is no musical 
record of it, so far as I know. One call note has two or 
three syllables, and is rather high-pitched, the other, an 
occasional one, is a short pianissimo whistle, still high- 
pitched and not unlike that of the Rose-breasted Grosbeak. 
Twice 8va. . Thrice 8va... 
P Pip. pip. pip. 
The bill is extremely large, which may account in a meas- 
ure for the nature of the song which has been described as 
an irregular warble in a full rich tone of voice, beginning 
pianissimo and ending abruptly fortissimo. I have only 
these records of the call notes taken in winter in northern 
New Hampshire. The bird is remarkably fearless. 
Chee. pe - Ceet 
Pine Grosbeak The Pine Grosbeak is a handsome, rosy- 
x fees feathered, boreal character, a common 
Toutes winter visitant of northern and central New 
L. 9.92 inches Hampshire, and more or less of all New York 
Winter and New England. On February 1, 1919, 
Mr. Forbush wr'tes, ‘‘The Pine Grosbeaks which have been 
abundant in northern New England since December have 
worked southward until they have reached the southern- 
most States of the region, and have even appeared on the 
large islands along the coast. Their numbers in northern 
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