30 PEOCEEDINGS OP THE 



of members of the Delaware Valley Ornithological Club. There 

 had been a light fall of snow the night before which covered 

 the ground under the wild-cherry trees and there was no sign 

 of the flock of Grosbeaks in the morning. In the afternoon 

 some of the members of the Club located and collected four 

 female evening grosbeaks in the woods on the edge of the clear- 

 ing on the opposite side to where I had always found the bird 

 before. They were found in the top of a pitch-pine tree. An 

 examination of the collected specimens showed the beak to be 

 greenish-yellow when seen nearby although in the distance it 

 has a white effect. Their crops were filled with the buds and 

 embryo needles of the pitch-pine. The records of this bird 

 show that it has been found feeding on the berries of the red- 

 cedar, climbing bittersweet, apple and crab-apple seeds, elm 

 and maple buds, box-elder seeds, and berries of flowering dog- 

 wood besides hemp and sunflower seeds. The iris of the eye 

 was red and the legs and feet of a grayish-pink color. The 

 plumage of the females showed mottled black-and-white wings 

 and greenish-yellow back and breast. 



The flight of the Evening Grosbeak is straight and swift. 

 The miller told us that the flock had been in his dooryard the 

 morning before but not the morning after the snowfall. My 

 last sight of this New Lisbon flock was on March 11th at 

 six-fifty a. m. They were in an apple tree back of the miller's 

 barn and I located them by hearing their loud English Spar- 

 row-like call. This time I also identified another note which 

 seemed to me like the chirp of a Robin, only trilled. This is 

 probably the note which they all make when they chir in 

 chorus. When I came near them they all sat stolidly and 

 silently in the tree for nearly ten minutes, evidently patiently 

 waiting for me to go. Finally they began to fly one by one to 

 the ground and soon began cracking and eating cherrj'^ pits from 

 a cherry tree which stood next to the apple tree. I looked 

 under several cherry trees that morning and under every one 

 found the ground covered with cracked seeds, even under the 

 leaves, showing that the birds had hunted out the pits from 

 every tree. I counted fifteen in this flock although there were 

 probably twenty, but owing to the constant moving about of 



