170 Norton, Evening Grosbeak in Maine. LApril 



THE EVENING GROSBEAK (HESPERIPHONA VESPER- 

 TINA) IN MAINE, WITH REMARKS ON ITS 

 DISTRIBUTION. 



BY ARTHUR H. NORTON. 



Like the other states east of New York, Maine, so far as known, 

 was first visited by the Evening Grosbeak during the well chron- 

 icled flight of 18S9-90, 1 when between the dates of Jan. 10 and 

 March 18, 1890 six specimens were detected according to the fol- 

 lowing records: A male was seen at Orono, Feb. 28, 1890 ; 2 two 

 were seen at Bangor, one a female having been taken, March 18, 

 1890. 3 One was taken by S. L. Crosby "near Bangor" in the 

 spring of 1890 ; 4 a male was taken at Bates College campus, 

 Lewiston, Jan. 10, 1890; 5 and a specimen was taken at Fryeburg, 

 without data being preserved. 6 



During the next nineteen years no report appears for this state, 

 though the birds were detected east of New York in very small 

 numbers on several occasions, as Massachusetts during the season 

 of 1903-04/ and in Connecticut in 1905 and 1907. 8 



In the late winter or early spring of 1909 an adult male was taken 

 in the Woodfords section of Portland. 9 



Since that time its occurrence in Maine has been frequent and 

 during the winters of 1915-1916 and 1916-1917, it was actually 

 abundant, and widely distributed. 



On November 10, 1910 Miss Adeline Willis saw three in Bridg- 

 ton. 10 



i See especially Auk, 1890, Vol. VII. Forest and Stream, 1890, Vol. XXXIV. Orni- 

 thologist and Oologist, 1890, Vol. XV. Also Butler, Auk, 1892, IX: 238-247, and Proc. 

 Canadian Inst. 1890-91, iii, pp. 76-89. 



2 1890: Fernald, Orn. & Ool. XV: 46. 



3 1890: Shepherd, Ool. VII: 86. 



4 1890: Call, Ool. VII: 252. 



5 1891: Walter, Birds of Androscoggin Co., 14. 



6 1897: Knight, Bull. 3, U. of M., 89. Knight also reported, one, p. 90, " Seen by S. L. 

 Crosby" which was taken at Brewer, but with the probability that it is the same bird 

 recorded by Call 1890, I have not treated it as a separate record. 



' 1904: Nichols, Auk, XXI: 81, and Brown, Ibid., 385. 



s 1905: Hutchins, Bird Lore VII: 173, 174. 1907: Bruen, Wils. Bull. XIX: 162. 

 9 1909: Rich, Journ. Me. Orn. Soc. XI: 26. 



10 1911: Willis, Bird-Lore, XIII: 93. Unfortunately this record was editorially antici- 

 pated, Bird-Lore, XIII: 48, and given as Naples. 



