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and another flock of about a dozen at 

 Intervale on May 3 and 4. A small 

 flock is also reported, by Miss T. R. 

 Robbins, to have been seen at Longwood 

 on May 7. — R. E. Robbins, BrookUne, 

 Mass. 



Evening Grosbeak at Pittsfield, Mass. 



Evening Grosbeaks have spent the 

 winter of 1915-16 at Pittsfield, Mass. The 

 writer has talked with two persons who 

 have seen as many as forty in a flock. One 

 of their favorite resorts has been in the 

 trees about a house situated on a street 

 closely built up on both sides, through 

 which a trolley line passes. About eight 

 o'clock on the morning of May 3, 1916, the 

 writer saw seven or eight in a cherry tree 

 on the edge of the sidewalk in front of this 

 house. Two males and three females flew 

 down to a feeding-tray fastened to a win- 

 dow-sill on the second story of the house, 

 and to an adjacent veranda roof, and 

 fed busily without being in the least dis- 

 turbed by the passing of cars and people. 

 About noon on May 6, 1916, in Lee, ten 

 miles south of Pittsfield, the writer saw 

 both male and female Evening Grosbeaks, 

 but, as they were in a deciduous wood 

 thick with bushes and young trees, could 

 not count them. — Lucy F. Friday, 

 Pittsfield, Mass. 



Evening Grosbeak at Worcester, Mass. 



Evening Grosbeaks have been seen at 

 Worcester for two months this spring. 

 March 8, a female appeared at 53 Elm 

 Street, feeding on hackberries, and evi- 

 dently enjoying the fruit as the bird was 

 seen daily for ten days. March 19, two 

 females were feeding on crabapples at 

 19 Cedar Street, and about the same time 

 one was seen in the southwesterly part of 

 the city near Leicester. March 25, one 

 male and two females were on the easterly 

 side of the city at 37 Kendall Street, and 

 were seen daily for about three weeks. 

 They fed on the pods of locust and catalpa, 

 finding seeds on the ground under linden and 

 elm trees, and evidently found something 



worth eating in the dry syringa seeds. In 

 no case, however, were they seen to take 

 grain that had been thrown out for their 

 benefit. By March 30' the number had 

 increased to seven, three males and four 

 females, and on April 13 an additional 

 female appeared. The last report was of 

 a pair seen in North Park, May 7. — Helen 

 A. Ball, Worcester, Mass. 



Evening Grosbeak at Winsted, Conn. 



In the last issue of Bird-Lore I saw 

 several letters from people who had seen 

 the Evening Grosbeak during the past 

 winter, but only one communication from 

 Connecticut. Many have been seen in 

 this part of the state. On February 24 

 I saw one; on March 12 and 13, two; on 

 April 21, two; and on April 27, I saw a 

 flock of eight. — Mrs. Mary E. Hul- 

 BERT, Winsted, Conn. 



Evening Grosbeak at Oswego, New York 



On February 25 and 29, seven Evening 

 Grosbeaks came to our red cedar and 

 maple trees near the house. They were 

 not at all wild, once alighting in a young 

 cedar within thirty feet of me. This is the 

 first time I have even seen the bird close 

 enough for positive identification, but, 

 after noticing its flight and hearing its 

 warbling note sometimes given on the 

 wing, I recall seeing similar birds at 

 different times in years past. — D. D. 

 Stone, Oswego, N. Y. 



Evening Grosbeak at Troy, New York 



April 16, as we were passing through an 

 old cemetery near our home, our atten- 

 tion was called to a new bird-note. The 

 sound came from the fir and spruce trees, 

 and, when we were close enough to see the 

 birds, we found a large flock of the Even- 

 ing Grosbeak, the first we had ever seen. 

 There must have been 20 or 25 in the 

 flock. As we approached, they ceased 

 calling, but were not at all timid. We 

 stood for several minutes under a small 

 spruce tree in which several of the birds 



