2^8 BuTl.KR OH the Evenitii;- Groshcak. [.!"'>' 



112. Icterus audubonii. Audubon's Oriolk. — This species may per- 

 haps most ])r()i)erly be described as a rare ivuitcr wanderer. I first ob- 

 served it on March 27, 1S90, when I secured a fine male attiong the tall 

 pecan timber on the San Antonio River just south of the city. I vvas 

 attracted by tiie biril's note. I did not observe it again till 1891, when I 

 obtained three specimens out of a flock of about eight or ten at the 

 same place on February 13. The next day they were all gone, and I have 

 never come across any since. Mr. Toudouze described some birds, which 

 were new to him, and which he noticed on the Medina River about the 

 same time, which from his description were no doubt this species. 



113. Icterus spurius. Orchard Oriole. — Abundant summer resident. 



114. Icterus bullocki. Bullock's Oriole. — Common summer resi- 

 dent. 



115. Scolecophagus cyanocephalus. Brewer's Blackbird. — Com- 

 mon migrant and winter resident. It is possible that some do not go far 

 north to breed, as I have observed them in the latter part of April at a 

 ranch on the hills twenty miles west of San Antonio, but I have never 

 found any nest. 



116. Quiscalus quiscula seneus. Bronzed Grackle. — Abundant 

 migrant and common summer resident, breeding in colonies among the 

 huisache trees in the city. They do not remain all winter, but appear 

 first about the end of January or early in February. 



117. Quiscalus macrourus. Great-tailed Grackle. — Common 

 summer resident. A few remain all winter around the irrigating ditches 

 in the market garden,s of the city. 



{To be concluded.) 



SOME NOrES CONCERNING THE EVENING GROS- 

 BEAK. 



BY AMOS W. BUTLER. 



The Evening Grosbeak is pre-eminently and typically a bird 

 of the coniferous forests of the Northwest. The first specimen 

 known was taken by Schoolcraft in 1S23 near Sault Ste. Marie, 

 Michigan, from which William Cooper described the species in 

 the Ann. N. Y. Lye. N. H., Jan. 10, 1825. Bonaparte figured 

 it in 1828, and noted two other specimens that had been taken 

 near Lake Athabasca. Sir John Richardson refers to specimens 

 from Carlton House, British America. 



