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215-514-(189). Coccothraustes vespertina (Coop.). EVENING GROSBEAK. 



Winter; rarely seen; occasionally very common; type specimen described by Cooper 

 was from Sault Ste. Marie; E. E. Brewster reports a large flock at Iron Mountain in 

 the winter of 1882; Mr. L. H. Colburn sent me one shot from a flock in Van Buren 

 County in 1887; winter of 1889-90 at the college in flocks; " Ann Arbor in 1887 and 

 1890" (Dr. J. B. Steere); "very abundant at Alma and Saginaw in winter of 1889-90*' 

 (Prof. C. A. Davis); "several small flocks in Monroe County in winter of 1889-90" 

 (Jerome Trombley); "attracted into houses by feeding, caught and kept in cages 

 for two years, all males and so could not breed" (L. W. Watkins); Dr. M. Gibbs 

 saw this bird in company with the Rose-breasted Grosbeak in Kalamazoo County 

 in late April, 1879 ( The Auk, April, 1892). For very full monograph of this bird see 

 article by Prof. A. W. Butler in The Auk, Vol. IX, July, 1892, pp. 238-247, also "Fur- 

 ther Notes on the Evening Grosbeak," The Auk, April, 1893, pp. 155-157. This article 

 refers largely to observations on this species in Michigan. He shows that this bird was 

 general in Michigan in the winter of 1890 from January to May. 



GENUS PINICOLA VIEILL. 



Pine Grosbeak, reduced. 



216-515-(19O). Piuicola enncleator (Linn.). *PINE GROSBEAK. 



Occasional in winter; often in large flocks; "in flocks of thousands in Jackson 

 County in 1881, where they were very tame" (Dr H. A. Atkins); we have one in our 

 museum from Ionia County, taken in January; "common in Bay County from 

 November, 1883, to April, 1884 " (N. A. Eddy, in O. and O., Vol. IX, p. 41); "occasionally 

 a straggler from the north in Kalamazoo County, in winter ' (Dr. M. Gibbs); " Kewee 

 naw Point" (Kneeland); "not uncommon at Iron Mountain and north, where I think it 

 breeds" (E. E. Brewster); I was surprise! to find but one in the large collection of 

 Mr. Levi Broas, made in the northern part of Ionia County. 



