68 CouES's ~ History of the Evening Grosbeak. 



speedily became known to oi-nithologists of all parts of the world, 

 The actual discovery of so welcome an addition to our recognized 

 Fauna was made by Mr. Schoolcraft, who secured the original exam- 

 ple of the species in April of the year 1823, at or near the Saute 

 Sainte Marie, Michigan. This individual, upon its presentation to the 

 Lyceum just named, became the basis of Mr. Cooper's communica- 

 tion, and was supposed for a little while to be the only representa- 

 tive of the species known to naturalists ; but other specimens soon 

 became available for the purposes of science. Thus Bonaparte, who 

 first figured tlie interesting acquisition, in 1828, states that at this 

 date he had examined two other specimens, besides Mr. School- 

 craft's, which had been shot early in the spring on Lake Athabasca, 

 and were preserved in the Leadbeater collection in London ; one of 

 them serving him for the elaborate description which he gives in 

 his " American Ornithology." Soon after this, we find Sir John 

 Richardson's allusion to specimens sent to the authors of the "Fauna 

 Boreali-Americana " by Mr. Prudens, Chief Trader at Carlton House ; 

 and this author remai'ks that the l)ird is a common inhabitant of 

 the maple groves of the Saskatchewan region, — a circumstance from 

 which its Cree Indian name Seesebasquit-pethnysish, or Sugar-Bird, is 

 derived.* A very characteristic likeness of the male bird of natural 



[Fringilla vespertina, Coop.], etc., habitant le temtoire N.-O. des Etats- 

 Unis ; par William Cooper Feruss. Bull. 2' sect. VIT, 1826, p. 110. 



Extrait des Annales du Lycee d'Hlst. Nat. de New York, I, 1825, pp. 219- 

 222. 



1827. Lesson, E. P. Description d'une espece nouvelle de gros-bec [Frin- 

 gilla vespertina, Coop.], habitant la partie nord-ouest des Etats-Unis ; par 

 William Cooper. . . . Feruss. Bull. 2« sect. XII, 1827, pp. 267, 268. 



Tire des Annah de Philos. XI, 1826, pp. 134-136. 



1832. Cooper, W. Neue Gattung Kernbeisser [Fringilla ivspc7-tina]. 

 Oken's Isis, Bd. XXV, 1832, p. 1073. 



Auszug aus d. Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. New York, I, 1825, pp. 219-222. 



1855. Cottle, T. Coccothraustcs vcsixrtina. — Evening Grosbeak. Canad. 

 Journ. Ill, 1855, p. 287. 



Historical and descriptive ; occuiTence of the species in Canada. 



1869. KiRTLAND, J. P. [Occurrence oi Hesperiphona vesjMrt in a in Ohio.] 

 Ohio Farmer, IX, March 24, 1860. 



The original ascription of the species to Ohio ; but it had been observed in 

 that State in 1847. 



* The accompanying descriptions are of a male killed on the Saskatchewan in 

 1829, and of a supposed female from some locality not stated ; the latter is, 

 however, the innnature male; for Bouaparte, in stating that the female scarcely 



