Vol. XXXIV 
"i917 ] General Notes. 479 
its presence was first noted early in October, and the last one reported as 
seen here was upon May 18.— Rosert O. Morris, Springfield, Mass. 
Evening Grosbeak at Lakewood, N. J.—I am able to add a small 
item to the record of the Evening Grosbeak in New Jersey... At Lake- 
wood, on the morning of March 21, 1917, near the corner of Forest Avenue 
and Second Street, I found a flock of about a dozen birds some of which 
were on the ground, feeding, others resting in bushes and small deciduous 
trees. ‘They were gone before I could make sure whether any males were 
amongst them. 
These are the only Evening Grosbeaks I have ever seen at Lakewood, 
where I have passed several weeks or several months during most of the 
winter seasons for twenty years—— NatHan Cuirrorp Brown, Portland, 
Maine. 
Evening Grosbeaks at Hatley, Stanstead County, Quebec.— 
Since my previous note on the winter birds (Auk, Vol. XXXIV, 1917, 
No. 2, p. 217) Evening Grosbeaks (Hesperiphona vespertina vespertina) 
I am pleased to say have paid us a visit on their way home to the far 
northwest, being first noticed on March 10, when a pair were seen feeding 
on the seeds of the locust or false acacia tree. Five days later a flock of 
seven (out of which I obtained a fine male) visited my garden, feeding on 
the seeds of some crab apples still remaining on one of the trees, and on the 
twenty-first five more were observed in the same tree, of which no less 
than four were males in fine plumage. In addition to these fourteen 
examples Mr. W. E. Greer of Hatley Centre, informs me that he has seen 
a similar number, five on March 11, feeding on the seeds of some crab 
apples in his orchard, and nine on the seventeenth in a neighbor’s orchard, 
which only alighted however for a minute (as there were no apples on the 
trees) and then continued their journey in a northerly direction. A 
noticeable feature this year both with regard to this species and the Pine 
Grosbeak (Pinicola enucleator leucura) the last of which were seen on 
April 14, has been the large number of full plumaged males, so different 
from previous years, when nearly all the flocks were composed of either 
females or immature males. My example of H. vespertina vespertina 
was given to the Victoria Memorial Museum at Ottawa, and I believe I 
am correct in stating that so far as the present material (which is somewhat 
scanty) there goes, it seems to indicate that there is no such thing in 
Canada as the Western race.— H. Moustey, Hatley, Que. 
English Sparrow (Passer domestecus) Feeding on the Larva of the 
Elm Tree Beetle.— Here in West Haven we have a great many elm 
trees, which, if not sprayed, are badly infested with the elm tree beetle, 
the larvze of which eat holes in the leaves causing them to turn yellow and 
1See Auk, XXXIV, pp. 210-212, and p. 218. 
