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yellow patch covering forehead and superciliary region ; rest of 

 head, with neck and back, uniform deep olivaceous, changing grad- 

 ually to yellow on scapulars and posterior portions of body, above 

 and below ; wings, tail, and upper tail-coverts black ; tertials uni- 

 form dull white, the secondaries and inner webs of tail-feathers 

 sometimes tipped with the same. Adult female: Whole top of head 

 dull brownish or brownish-gray ; rest of head, with neck and most 

 of the body, lighter grayish, tinged more or less with olive-yellow, 

 the throat bordered along each side by a dusky streak ; a whitish 

 patch at base of inner primaries. Young : Similar to adult female, 

 but colors much duller and more brownish, with markings less 

 sharply defined, the dusky streak on sides of throat sometimes 

 nearly obsolete ; lower parts paler and more buffy, with little or 

 none of gray; bill dull horn-color, or brownish instead of yellowish 

 green. Length about 7.00-8.50, wing 4.20-4.50, tail 2.75-3.20, cul- 

 men .75-.80, depth of bill at base .55-.70. Hab. Western North 

 America, north to British Columbia and the Saskatchewan; east 

 (irregularly, in winter) to Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois, and Iowa; 

 casually to Ohio and Ontario ; south over table-lands of Mexico to 

 highlands of Vera Cruz. 



514. C. vespertinus (Coop.). Evening Grosbeak. 



b*. Adult male with head entirely black ; adult female with top of head black 

 (sharply defined), no dusky streak on sides of throat, and upper tail- 

 coverts without white tips. Hab. Highlands of Guatemala and southern 

 Mexico. 



C.'abeillii (Lass.). Abeille's Grosbeak. 1 



GENUS PINICOLA YIEILLOT. (Page 382, pi. CY., fig. 2.) 



Species. 



COMMON CHARACTERS. Adult males: General color dull rose-pink or madder- 

 pink (rarely varying to a light vermilion tint), changing to ash-gray on scapulars, 

 flanks, belly, and under tail-coverts, the plumage everywhere being of this color be- 

 neath the surface ; scapulars and feathers of back dusky centrally, causing a spotted 

 appearance ; wings and tail dusky, the middle and greater coverts broadly tipped 

 with white (this sometimes tinged with pink) and tertials broadly edged with same ; 

 secondaries, primaries, and tail-feathers narrowly edged with light grayish. Adult 

 females with wings and tail as in the male, but rest of plumage grayish, without 

 any red, but changing to a more or less bright olive-tawny tint on head and lower 

 rump, the breast sometimes tinged with same. Young : Similar to adult female, 

 but colors duller and more blended, the wing-bands dull buffy instead of pure 

 white, and texture of plumage very different. [Note. Apparently adult males are 

 occasionally found in which the plumage is not distinguishable from that of the 



1 Guiraca aleillii LESS., Rev. Zool. 1839, 41. Coccothraustes abeillii SCL. & SALT., Ibis, 1859, 19. 



