BULLETIN 4 and 5 



report having been made by the Misses Susan and Emily Clark, — 

 June 9, igoi, May i8, 1902, May 16, 1903, May 18, 1905, 

 May 23, 1906, Sept. i, 1908. 



The following extract from a letter of Mr. W. E. Balch, 

 written Dec. 17, 1908,15 also of interest in this connection, "I 

 have just found the date, or note, referring to the Connecticut 

 Warbler that you have at the Museum. I shot it Sept. 14, 1905 

 in some low willows on the brook just below my place here in 

 Lunenburg. Do not remember as I told you that I saw another 

 one the past season here, the first week in September, but I had 

 neither my gun nor my camera so I have no further proof, but as 

 I watched it some time there was no mistake." 



THE EVENING GROSBEAK. 



Cocothraustes Vespertinus. 

 BY MRS. C. V. H. COAN. 



On February 21, 1909, two Evening Grosbeaks, came 

 mto a box elder tree near my window. They seemed very 

 fearless and remained in the tree feeding on the seeds a suffi- 

 cient length of time so that there was no room left for 

 doubt as to their identity, though it did seem too good to 

 be true that these beautiful birds which are rarely seen in the 

 eastern part of the United States should suddenly appear in Ver- 

 mont. The birds stayed about different trees in the neighbor- 

 hood for several hours. A friend to whom I telephoned, Mr. 

 G. W. Kirk, came out and observed them also. Previous to this, 

 on p'ebruary 12, a strange bird which I feel sure was the female 

 of this species came into the same tree. This bird lacked the 

 brilliancy of the two which appeared later, but possessed the 

 same general characteristics and in every way corresponded ex- 

 actly to the description of the female given in Chapman's Birds 

 of Eastern North America. 



Later, with several other people, I saw small flocks of Eve- 

 ning Grosbeaks in different parts of the city, being observed un- 

 til March 14. At one time I counted nine on the same tree. 

 So far as lam aware, this is the first record of the Evening 

 Grosbeak in Rutland. There is, I believe, a record of their ap- 

 pearance in the vicinity of Burlington in 1890. 



