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of reporting its occurrence in our vicinity. During the latter part of 

 December, the Evening Grosbeak was reported in Rochester, N. Y., the 

 first time seen there since the winter of 1889-90, but it had not been ob- 

 served here. Since then I have been watching carefully, hoping to make a 

 record of this beautiful bird in our county. About ten days ago they were 

 first seen in Lyons. Since that time they have been reported, almost 

 daily, as occurring in flocks of from 6 to 10, in some section of the town, 

 and to-day, February 4, 1911, I recorded 30 of these birds feeding about 

 in the maples and picking up the buds from the ground which a recent 

 wind and wet snowstorm had shaken from the trees. Both sexes were 

 represented almost equally in the flock and exhibited marked lameness. 



It will be gratifying indeed if the erratic travels of these birds become 

 more frequent and eastern people have the pleasure of becoming better 

 acquainted with this common bird of the Northwest. — E. Earl Elliott, 

 Lyons, N. Y. 



The Evening Grosbeak in New Hampshire. — We have with us here 

 at this date (Jan. 2, 1911) a flock of eight Evening Grosbeaks. They have 

 been here for a month, and have been seen every day on one of our back 

 streets on a small ornamental tree which is covered with seeds on which 

 they feed. They seem to make their headquarters in some pines near by. 

 They come out to feed two or three times a day. 



They are very handsome and quite uniformly colored though there is a 

 slight difference in shades. They are very tame and will not notice any- 

 one that may be within a few feet of them and they have had many visitors 

 as they are quite a curiosity in this vicinity as they are in any part of New 

 England. — C. H. Storrs, Lebanon, N. H. 



The Evening Grosbeak at Lancaster, Mass. — On Sunday, January 

 15, 1911, as I was walking along the main street, I was attracted by a 

 peculiar whistle, and looking around I saw three Evening Grosbeaks 

 ( Hesperiphona vespertina vespertina) light on the ground under some 

 spruces, not twenty-five feet from where I stood. They were eating some 

 kind of seeds. There was a male in fine bright plumage and two dull- 

 colored birds, which I took to be females. These are the first Evening 

 Grosbeaks I have ever seen in Lancaster, although they have been reported 

 from the next Town (Leominster). — John E. Thayer, Lancaster, Mass. 



Harris's Sparrow (Zonotrichia querula) in Southern Idaho. — On 

 January 1 of this year I took a Harris's Sparrow, female, from a flock of 

 Gambel's (Z. I. gambeli) among the brush on a creek bank near this place. 

 There were perhaps 50 birds in the flock, and I am confident that there 

 were several more of the Harris species; in fact, I identified another at a 

 distance of not more than 20 feet. The 1910 Check-List records it as 

 accidental in Washington, Oregon, and California. Apparently this 



