1887.] General Notes. 2^7 



the production of a female specimen that he had secured. We went at 

 once to the place, with a view to procuring additional specimens, but the 

 Hock had departed, and were no more seen. A resident of the neighbor- 

 hood informed us that they had continued about this locality for over a 

 week. 



This is the fifth record of the species in Ontario. — Ernest E. Thomp- 

 son, Toronto. Canada. 



Occurrence of the Evening Grosbeak in Fulton County, Kentucky. — 

 Upon becoming certain that the Evening Grosbeak {Coccothraustes ves- 

 perttna) really had been seen by me in this State ] wrote to Mr. J. A. 

 Allen to know if its occurrence was of any especial interest. He wrote 

 that its occurrence anywhere south of the Great Lakes was rare, and 

 might be considered almost as accidental, and that he knew of no record 

 of its occurrence south of the Ohio River, and asked for my notes on the 

 species in full for publication in 'The Auk.' They are as follows: March 

 iS, 1SS7, Mr. Robert Powell showed me a female he had found dead. He 

 said it was a ' Paroquet.' On March 22, I killed a female anil saw another 

 but could not secure it. The next day I saw several and killed a Hue male. 

 On the 25th I saw a flock of seven, but they were in the city limits and I 

 could not shoot any. Up to date (March 29) these are all my notes on 

 the species. If I see it again I will report further. — L. O. Pindar, Hick- 

 man, Ky. 



Winter Plumage of Leucosticte australis. — During the month of Janu- 

 ary, 1S86, I was so fortunate as to secure several specimens of Leucosticte 

 australis in full winter dress, and as no account of the winter plumage 

 of this species has, I believe, ever appeared, the following may be of in- 

 terest. 



Leucostietc australis, adult $ in winter plumage (No. 1513, Coll. A. W. 

 A. ; January 24, 1SS6, Gold Hill, Boulder County, Colo.). Pileum grayish 

 black, darkest anteriorly, slightly paling to grayish on occiput ; lores 

 dull blackish; nasal plumes white. General color above and below light 

 umber-brown, tending to chocolate on the chin and throat. Feathers of 

 the back with darker shaft-lines and paler edges; those of the breast but 

 slightly tipped with whitish. Hinder parts of the body, above and below, 

 rich carmine-red; primaries, outer four secondaries, second, third, fourth 

 and fifth rectrices edged, and lesser wing-coverts broadly tipped with 

 same color. Wings and tail blackish, all of the primaries and seconda- 

 ries broadly, and median pair of rectrices slightly, edged with dull white. 

 Lining of wings white, edged with rosy. Bill yellow, tipped with black 

 for one-fourth its length. Feet black. 



Adult ? (No. 1510, Coll. A. W. A.; Jan. 24, 1SS6, Gold Hill, Boulder 

 Co., Colo.). General color as in the male, but paler. Light edgings of 

 the feathers of the breast and back slightly more conspicuous; rosy mark- 

 ings paler and duller, primaries and first secondaries very slightly edged 

 with rosy ; wing-coverts and inner secondaries edged with bully white; 



