24-2 Butler on the Eveninsr Gronlieak. [J"'y 



Aprils, 18S7, '^'^** ''*'•' males from the same locality, dated April 

 18, 1SS7. ^^^'- ^- ^^- Williamson was successful in adding three 

 other records from the vicinity of Bloomington, Indiana, the 

 same spring. April 27, 1SS7, he noted one; April 29, two; and 

 again April 30. Mr. C. A. Stockbridge, Fort Wayne, Indiana, 

 has a specimen in his collection which was taken near that city 

 and brought to him by a friend about May 6, 1S87. It was taken 

 near that place, and was said to have been one of eight or nine. 

 Mr. R. Turtle, a taxidermist of Chicago, showed me a number 

 of specimens of these birds of which he said he killed ten May 

 8, 18S7, at Berry Lake, Indiana, and thirteen May 10, at Whiting, 

 Indiana. In Mr. Morcom's collection are also two specimens, a 

 male and a female labelled Berry Lake, Ind., May 10, 1S87. 

 In March, 1SS7, '^'^^y seem to have appeared in some numbers 

 in Fulton County, Kentucky. Mr. L. O. Pindar, in 'The Auk' 

 for July, 18S7, notes them March iS, 32, and 25. This is the 

 only record from south of the Ohio River. 



April 2, 1887, Mr. E. E. Thompson noted about thirty near 

 Toronto, Ontario. April 5, 1887, Dr. Bergtold records the cap- 

 ture of two near Brant, Erie Co., New York. 



Their distribution appeared to be not so extensive in 1888 and 

 the early part of 1889. Mr. Edward P. Carlton, Madison, Wis- 

 consin, says : " During the winter of 1888-89, at Wauwatosa, 

 Wis., I saw only one flock of about eighteen, and they were 

 very wary an<l kept well to the tops of the trees. This was 

 on the I ith or 12th of November, 1888." Mr. Stewart E. White 

 of Grand Rapids, Mich., notes that in the former year a few 

 were seen in that city in January and February, and in the lat- 

 ter year he says they were first seen Ajoril 10, and occasionally 

 from that time to May 13. Mr. Jerome Trombley, Petersburgh, 

 Mich., notes that two or three flocks were seen at that place for 

 the first time in the winter of 1S88-89. My friend, Mr. Otto 

 WIdmann, has very kindly informed me that he saw in the 

 collection of Mr. Louis Fuchs, Belleville, Illinois, two male 

 Evening Grosbeaks that were taken in St. Clair County, 

 Illinois, one of them Feb. 3, 1889. This is the most southern 

 Illinois record and, save Mr. Pindar's, the most southern exten- 

 sion of their range east of the Rocky Mountains. 



Concerning the extensive dispersal of this bird in the winter of 

 889-90, I offer the following notes some of which have not been 



