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The Evening Grosbeak in Connecticut. — A female Evening Grosbeak 

 (Coctothraustes vespertina) was shot at Gaylordsville, Conn., March 10. 

 1S90, by Mr. E. II. Austin of that place, who kindly forwarded it to me. 

 Mr. Austin writes that it was one of four or five that came near his house, 

 and that one of them was very yellow, probably an adult male. Gaylordsville 

 — a district of the town of New Milford — is on the Housatonic River, 

 but a few miles from the New York State line. — C. K. Averill, Jr., 

 Bridgeport., Conn. 



Evening and Pine Grosbeaks in Ontario.* — Large and numerous flocks of 

 these two species {Coccothraustes vespertina and Pinicola enucleator) have 

 appeared this year in the Province of Ontario. They are reported from 

 Kingston, Toronto, southern Peel Co., and Hamilton ; no doubt more ex- 

 tended observation would show a universal distribution at least along the 

 northern shore of Lake Ontario. The first comers of this migration were 

 observed about New Year's Day, and since then large numbers of both 

 species have been reported from all points under observation. Some- 

 times the species are in separate nocks, and sometimes together. When 

 not associated with the Pine Grosbeaks, the Evening Grosbeaks have 

 usually been observed on the ground, where their actions are much like 

 those of the Pipilo erythropkthalmus; the food that they find there is 

 seeds of maple {Acer sacc/iarinum?), stones of choke cherry, and common 

 ed haws ; these latter are found in their stomachs all crushed, no doubt, 

 by the powerful mandibles of the birds. 



The Pine Grosbeaks are usually seen feeding on the berries of the 

 mountain-ash, and the crops and gizzards of many that have been shot 

 have been found crammed with the seeds of the black ash, divested of the 

 outer covering in most cases. 



This migration is so great and so unusual that all the papers have had 

 notices of it, and every one about here who makes any pretention to 

 being a naturalist has added numerous examples of both species to his 

 collection. 



It is interesting to note that last winter there were no records here for 

 the Evening and but one or two for the Pine Grosbeaks; the winter was 

 a severe one, while this is unusually mild so far (Jan. 27), so it seems as 

 if the abundant food supply, rather than any climatic conditions directly, 

 might have had to do with the migration. — Ernest E. Thompson, 

 Toronto, Out. 



The Ipswich Sparrow in Georgia. — I took on Jan. S, 1S90, a fine male 

 specimen of the Ipswich Sparrow {Ammodramus princeps) on 'Jack's 

 Bank,' a bleak, grassy coast island, just south of the Altamaha River, in 

 Glynn County, Georgia. On Jan. 15 I secured another specimen, a 



*For further records of the eastward movement of Evening Grosbeaks during 

 the past winter see the following: 'Forest and Stream', Vol. XXIV, Feb. 6, 1890, pp. 

 44, 45; Feb. 13, pp. 64,65; Feb. 27, pp. 103 104; March 6, p. 123; March 13, p. 143; 

 March 20, p. 167; March 27, p. 187. — 'Ornithologist and Oologist', Vol. XV, No. 

 2, Feb., 1890, pp. 27-28 ; No. 3, March, 1890, p. 46. 



