Birds of Indiana. 911 



118. Gknus COCCOTHRAUSTES Brisson. 

 Subgenus Hksperiphona Bonaimrte. 



196. (514). Coccothraustes vespertinus (Coop.). 



Evening Grosbeak. 



Evening Grosbeak. (Reduced.) 



3Iale. — Above, olive-brown; line over eye, forehead, wing coverts 

 and rump, yellow; crown, primaries and tail, black; secondaries, mostly 

 white; below, yellowish, darkening to olive-brown on -the throat; outer 

 tail feathers, sometimes more or less white; bill, very large, greenish- 

 yellow. Female. — Above, top of head, brownish-gray; rest of upper 

 parts, grayish, tinged more or less with yellowish; a whitish patch at 

 base of primaries. Immature. — Similar to female, but duller. 



Length, 7.00-8.50; wing, 4.20-4.50; tail, 2.75-3.20. 



Eange. — Interior of North America, from Eocky Mountains east 

 to Great Lakes and northward. Casually, to the Atlantic Coast, and 

 southward, in winter, irregularly, into Nebraska, the Ohio Talley, In- 

 diana and Kentucky, Pennsylvania and Connecticut. 



Nest, in tree; of sticks, twigs, rootlets. Bggs, 3-4; greenish, blotched 

 with pale brown. This description is of the nest and eggs of the 

 western form, which has been separated from this. They are un- 

 doubtedly similar. 



Very irregular winter visitor; sometimes found in numbers. These 

 birds, whose home is in the dark coniferous forests of the Northwest, 

 some winters range eastward and southward, until they reach the At- 

 lantic Coast. Such, however, is unusual, but every few years they 

 have been found in Indiana. 



