136 BIRDS OF- OHIO. 



Family FRINGILLID^. Finches, Sparrows, Buntings, 



etc. 



Of this group there have been found in Ohio 33 species 

 native to North America, and one imported species. Only 

 one other family of birds exceeds this in number of species, 

 and probably none exceeds it in the numbers of individual 

 birds, for the sparrows are alv\^ays numerous. These birds 

 are also among the most puzzling to the average student. 

 Their food habits are given under each species. 



186. (514.) Hesperiphona vespertina (Coop.). 84. 



Evening Grosbeak. 

 Synonyms: Coccothraustes vespertina, Fringilla vespertina. 

 Kirtland, Ohio Farmer (newspaper), IX, 1860, 91. 



Dr. Wheaton knew of but one record for this northern 

 species, in the reference given above. ■ A female was taken 

 by Mr. Charles Pease, Jr., and several others were seen by 

 Dr. Kirtland, a few days previous to March 24, 1860. There 

 was a small flight southward during the latter part of Jan- 

 uary, 1890, when a specimen was secured by Dr. Carl Tut- 

 tle, of Berlin Heights, Erie county, January 30, 1890 ; a 

 number were seen by Mr. A. Hall, of Cleveland, and by 

 Rev. J. M. Keck, in Lake county. At best it is a rare winter 

 visitor to northern Ohio. 



187. (515.) PiNicoLA enucleator leucura (Miill.). 85 



Canadian Pine Grosbeak. 



Synonyms: Pinicola enucleator, Corythus enucleator, Pinicola 



canadensis, Loxia enucleator. 

 Kirtland, Am. Journal Sci. and Arts, XIII, 1852, 218. 



The records of the occurrence of this northern bird are 

 few, and, except Audubon's inferential reference to speci- 

 mens captured at the mouth of the Big Giiyandotte, in West 

 Virginia, are confined to northern Ohio. Dr. Wheaton 

 gives three records, two besides Audubon's. Dr. Kirtland 

 recorded it from near Cleveland, and the statement bv Mr., 

 Read that it is "rare, though occasionally seen. during most 

 of the year," seems to me a decidedly questionable 



