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largely in the Lower Mississippi Valley. With us it is apparently 

 found only as a spring and fall migrant, sometimes not un- 

 common. 



Family FRINGILLID^E. FINCHES, SPARROWS, ETC. 



227. Coccothraustes vespertina (Coop.}. EVENING GROS- 

 BEAK. (514.) Interior of North America, from Manitoba north- 

 ward ; southeastward in winter to the Upper Mississippi Valley 

 and casually to the northern Atlantic States. 



During the winter and early spring of 1890 there was a 

 phenomenal incursion of Evening Grosbeaks into the northern 

 United States, The most southern record of their occurrence in 

 the Atlantic States was at Summ'it, N. J., where, on March 6, Mr. 

 W. O. Raymond observed a flock of eight birds (Orn. and Ool. , 

 XV, 1890, p. 46). No specimens were collected, but Mr. Raymond 

 watched the birds for some time at a distance of about eight feet, 

 and he has since examined skins of the species in this Museum, 

 thus confirming his identification. 



FIG. 1 8. PINE GROSBEAK. 



228. Pinicola enucleator (Linn.). PINE GROSBEAK. (515.) 

 "Northern portions of the Northern Hemisphere, breeding far 

 north ; in winter south, in North America, irregularly to the north- 

 ern United States." This species occurs here in the winter and 

 then only at long and irregular intervals. 



