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the birds I could not make an absolutely accurate count. I 

 could see only two males. Finally the birds flew over into the 

 woods and I followed after them. They lit on the ground 

 and walked toward me until they were not over thirty feet 

 away. Again I noted the uncanny spectacled look which the 

 yellow line over the eye gives the bird. That spectacled ap- 

 pearance and the unnatural white beak would alone, outside of 

 the brillant coloring of the males, make the Evening Grosbeak 

 noticeable anywhere as a strange, unusual-looking bird. Again 

 the flock impressed me not as shy but as wonderfully alert. 

 While they were close to me on the ground I happened to 

 move a single finger of my left hand suddenly. At once the 

 whole flock took to flight and flew over to a tree-top by the side 

 of the road near where I first saw them. As I had watched 

 them for half an hour and was chilled to the bone by the cold 

 rain, I went back to my cabin. My last sight of this New 

 Lisbon flock Avas of the birds sitting in a tree-top near where I 

 had first seen them in the same kind of a driving cold rain. 



On Sunday morning March 25, I was coming back from 

 Darby Creek near Haverford, in Delaware Co. , Pennsylvania be- 

 tween nine and ten in the morning with my son Gurdon and a 

 friend, Theodore Spencer. We had been out getting a bird-list 

 and were coming back up along a little swale of trees through 

 which a tiny brook runs not far from the intersection of Darby 

 Road and Highland Avenue. As we were hurrying home I sud- 

 denly heard in the bushes in the middle of this swale, several 

 loud pips and stopped the boys and told them that the notes 

 sounded like those of the Evening Grosbeak, As we came nearer 

 to the swale my boy Gurdon first caught sight of a male evening 

 grosbeak on a branch of a low tree. They had been feeding on 

 the ground under a cherry tree. There were six in the flock, 

 four which I thought were females and two males. So far as I 

 know these are the first Evening Grosbeaks to be reported from 

 Delaware Co. , Pa. The next morning, March 26, at seven-ten I 

 reached this little run and heard them some distance away. 

 I could only find four, one male and three females, on a tree. 

 They were at the head of the swale near the road. They flew 

 down to the ground and began feeding on cherry pits which I 



