23O SPARROWS AND FINCHES. 



1. EVENING GROSBEAK, H. VESPERTINA. 7.60; 

 forehead and broad line over eye, yellow; top of head black, 

 Fig. 303. gradually changing through olive 



on back of neck and upper back to 

 clear yellow behind on both sur- 

 faces ; wings, brownish with a 

 large patch of white ; tail, black ; 

 bill, greenish-yellow, fig. 303. In_ 

 terior of N. A. east of the Rockies, 

 wandering eastward irregularly 

 south to E&nsas east to N. E. 

 Call note, loud and frequently giv- 

 en; song, short and not very pleas- 

 ing. 



y. Song- Grosbeak. 

 Zameloclia. 



Large fringiline birds with large bills, long wings, and 

 long, square tails; nests of sticks placed in trees or bushes, 

 very frail structures ; eggs, blue, spotted with reddish-brown . 



1. HOSE-BREASTED GROSBEAK, Z. LUDOVICI>^\ 

 7.75 ; head, neck and above, black, large patch on wings and 



CC, F, x, 1. 



several smaller ones, spots on 

 outer tail feathers, rump, and 

 beneath, white; under wing 

 coverts and triangular patch on 

 breast, rose, fig. 304. Female, 

 brown above, buffy below, 

 streaked with dusky ; under 

 wing coverts, saffron-yellow; 

 median line of crown, and line 

 over eye whitish, plate 2l 

 bill in both sexes, pale-brown, 

 whitish beneath. Breeds in 

 eastern N. A. from the Middle 

 States to the southern British 



Fig. 304. 



CC, F, y, 1. 1-4. 



