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the lirst at Woixlstock in May, 1866, where a Hock was seen and 

 one or two shot by Dr. T. J. Cottle; the second in 1S71 near 

 London, when several specimens were taken ; the third March 17, 

 1SS3, near Hamilton, when two were seen and killed; the fourth 

 he gives on accoimt of a female having been obtained in Toronto, 

 Dec. 25, 1854. Mr. E. W. Nelson (Bull. Essex Inst. Vol. VIII, 

 1S77, p. 104), speakingof it in northern Illinois says: "A winter 

 visitor occurring at irregular intervals. The winter of 1871 they 

 were quite common throughout the northern portion of the State. 

 The following winter they were much rarer, and since then but 

 verv few have been seen. I am told that formerly it was of much 

 more regular occurrence." 



Dr. Morris Gibbs has very kindly furnished me extracts from 

 his records concerning the occurrence of the species in Michigan. 

 He notes them at Kalamazoo, March 22, 1869; March 30. 1S73; 

 Nov. 25, 1S78, common. He gives seveial dates from March 18 

 to May 3, 1879, during which time they appear to have been 

 common. April 28 and 29 he notes that "the males appear to 

 have gone ; all here are females." May 3 he records seeing the 

 Evening and Rose-brea.sted Grosbeaks together in a grove, to him 

 a remarkable sight. Dr. Gibbs reports it from Grand Rapids in 

 1S69, in the spring of 1874, and common there March 23, 1879. 

 He also reports them upon the authority of J. D. Allen from 

 Paw Paw, Michigan, in 1872. Dr. Gibbs notes that they feed 

 principally on the buds of the sugar maple i^Acer saccharinuin). 

 He says they are -'very unsuspicious until April, and then very 

 shy." 



Prof. O. P. Hay in a paper published in the Bulletin of the 

 Nuttall Ornithological Club, Jul}', i8<Si, says these birds were 

 found at Freeport, Illinois, in the winter of 1870-71, and at Wau- 

 kegan during January, 1873, and then mentions his finding a 

 flock, from which he killed six, at Eureka, Woodford Co., Illi- 

 nois, in the autumn, al>out the vear 1872. 



There is a specimen in the collection of Turdue University, 

 Lafayette, Indiana, of which Prof. C. R. Barnes, now of the 

 University of Wisconsin, but at the time he wrote a member of 

 the faculty in the first-named University, said: "It is a male; 

 was shot at Lafayette in Novemlier, 1878." This is the first 

 Indiana record. 



Mr. H. K. Coale notes in his records two females Dec. 20, 

 1883, and s;iys, upon the authority of Mr. Geo. L. Topj:»an, 



