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liar lark song, but was unable to investigate tbe matter. Later I wrote 

 Mr. Vernon Bailey and Mr. B. H. Dutcher, both of whom had been 

 observing the intergradations of plumage and habits in Kansas of these 

 two birds, and I asked of them if they had observed any birds with a 

 blended voice. Neither had; and Mr. Bailey was kind enough to ask 

 other ornithologists at the Smithsonian Institution concerning the 

 matter. None had noticed any intergrading. 



But recently (March 9, 1S96) 1 was in the same region of mv former 

 duck hunt and heard distinctly a Western Lark's song. It was fairly 

 typical but too highly pitched. A mile away I heard another that was 

 deeply liquid and gurgling — in fact quite typical of 5. m. neglecta, 

 but only a fourth of a mile away I heard one whose song was that of 6\ 

 magna except that it had near the middle a rather highly pitched gurgle. 

 It did not have, in its many repetitions, any downward ending as the 

 other two birds had. Neither was the entire song so highly pitched as 

 that of the typical 6\ magna — scores of which were singing around it. 



To my mind here was a distinct intergradation — perhaps the result 

 of hybridism. The region was in Audrain County, Mo., about fifteen 

 miles southwest of Mexico, Mo., and about one fourth of a mile north 

 of the divide between the water-sheds of the Missouri and Mississippi 

 Rivers. 



I had shot the 6\ m. neglecta once before in this county further 

 eastward. 



This is the only region near me where 6 1 . m. neglecta is found so far 

 as I know, though it comes into Southwest Missouri. I might add 

 that I am well acquainted with the song of «S. ;/;. neglecta, having heard 

 it in Kansas, Colorado and S. Dakota. — James Newton Baskett, 

 Mexico, Mo. 



Pinicola enucleator at Worcester, Mass. — A flock of sixteen Pine 

 Grosbeaks, containing a few bright males, was reported in the northern 

 part of this city Jan. 15, 1896. For a little over a month the Grosbeaks 

 were seen in different parts of the city, one or two or a half dozen at a 

 time, feeding upon mountain-ash berries and seeds of maple and Scotch 

 elm. The last seen was on Feb. 21. But few bright males were seen, 

 the largest number being reported on Feb. 19, when a flock of fifteen con- 

 tained " several brilliant specimens." — Helen A. Ball, Worcester, 

 Mass. 



Evening Grosbeak in Southern Wisconsin. — On January 21, 1S96, while 

 passing an old, deserted cemetery on the outskirts of Delavan (Wis.), 

 I heard lively chattering among the large 'evergreen' trees within the 

 graveyard and knew at once that it was the note of some bird new to 

 me. On watching closely I soon saw a beautiful male Grosbeak (Cocco- 

 thraustcs vespertinus) appear on the outside of the tree, and later a 

 couple more and two or three of the plainer clothed females. There 



