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Wintei' records: Bozeinan, January 2, 1911 (Saunders, 1913a, p. 116); 

 Gallatin Valley, three seen January 1, 1917 (Lundwall, MS) ; Bitterroot Val- 

 ley, eoiimion in winter (Bailey, MS) ; Helena, one, February 27, 1911; not com- 

 mon at Kalispell in winter (Sloanaker, MS). 



Spi-ing and fall records: In most localities the Western Evening Grosbeak 

 IS most commonly seen in spring and fall, occurring at those seasons in large 

 flocks. Gallatin County, common from March 20 to April 9, 1909, and one 

 male seen May 8. 1909; Helena, flocks abundant from March 10 to 28, 1911; 

 Tongue River, three on April 26, 1891 (Thorne, 1895, p. 216) ; Bitterroot Val- 

 ley, seen up to Ai)ril 19, 1911, and common till June in 1908 (Bailey, MS). 

 Fall: Bozeman, November 26, 1908, and October 16, 1910. 



204. Pinicola enucleator montana Ridgw a.y 



Rocky Mountain Pine Grosbeak 



A rare summer resident of the Hudsonian zone in high mountains probably 

 throughout the western half of the state. Occurs frequently but erratically in 

 migi'ations and in winter in the valleys and lower mountains of the western half 

 of the state. In the summer time it is rare, and it occurs so high in the moun- 

 tains that few observers get to see it. Records at this season are therefore few . 

 It was first found near Mystic Lake, Gallatin County, and on Traill Creek, Park 

 County (Richmond and Knowlton, 1894, p. 305), and from these birds the sub- 

 species was first described (Ridgway, 1898, p. 319). I have met with this spe- 

 cies in summer in the Hudsonian zone in Gallatin County, and in Teton and 

 northern Lewis and Clark counties. One individual male was seen at F'lathead 

 Lake, June 27, 1914, in the Transition zone (Saunders, 1915b, p. 110). It has 

 been noted in the Hudsonian zone near Missoula, July 31, 1915 (Kittredge, 

 MS). These appear to be all the summer records. The nest has evidently 

 never been found in the state. 



In migrations and in the winter it is much more common and occurs in 

 large flocks. In Gallatin and Park counties it is abundant in migrations. I 

 noted large flocks on Reese Creek, Park County, October 22, 1908, and in Tom 

 Minor Basin, October 29, 1908. In spring it was noted at Bozenwin until April 

 6, 1909, and on Middle Creek in the lower mountains, until May 7, 1909. On 

 the Sun River, Lewis and Clark County, I found it still in the Hudsonian zone 

 on October 22, 1911. In southw^estern Montana, where observations in the moun- 

 tains for two seasons did not disclose its presence in summer, it appeared in 

 large flocks in fall. The earliest flock was seen in the Hudsonian zone near Elk 

 Park, September 8, 1910. This was immediately following the bad fire season 

 of 1910, when two or three heavy snow storms had left about eight inches of 

 snow on the ground. Tlu^ large numbers of the birds so early in the season, con- 

 sidering that they iuid not been found in the region in summer, surprised me. 

 They wei-e also notetl in this region, Xovember 1, 191(1, on Dry Cottonwood 

 Creek, and on Divide Creek, April 26. 1910. In the Bitterroot Valley a bird of 

 this subspecies was taken from a flock of si.x on October 5, 1910 (Bailey, MS). 

 At Jlissoula. tills species is found all winter and has been noted from December 



