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Record of Evening Grosbeak at 

 Branchport, N. Y. 



January lo. A single male seen feeding 

 on the seeds of a maple. 



January 17. Two males seen several 

 times in the maples in the streets today. 



February 8. Two males were feeding 

 for over an hour in the maples across the 

 street from my house. 



February 9. Two males and one female 

 were in the same trees as they were 

 j^esterday, for nearly two hours. 



February 10. This morning there were 

 six males and three females, and they 

 were on the move all the morning, going 

 from one part of the town to the other. 

 We had them under observation all the 

 forenoon. About nine o'clock two more 

 appeared, making eleven in all. 



February 11. This morning there were 

 eleven of the Evening Grosbeaks in the 

 street, and at one time a flock of Gold- 

 finches mingled with them in a tree-top. 

 At noon there were fifteen in the flock, 

 and at two o'clock there were twenty of 

 them. 



February 12. Today the flock numbered 

 twenty-two and we followed them from 

 place to place for about three hours. 

 They were on the move a good share of 

 the time, moving along through the 

 maples, feeding as they went; then away 

 across the fields to a gully, where they 

 drank from the brook and cracked a few 

 pods from a locust; then back to the 

 maples again; then on down the street, 

 flying on to the roof of a house, to pick 

 in the snow, and on another house they 

 found the gutter full of maple seed-pods, 

 and such a scramble as there was then, 

 about a dozen birds lined up along the 

 gutter, pushing and crowding each other 

 to get at the seeds! Here my camera 

 missed fire, and I lost the best oppor- 

 tunity I have ever had for a picture of 

 them. 



Shortly after this, they went away 



across the fields, and we did not see them 

 again. 



During the following week, several 

 people reported to me having seen from 

 two to five or six birds. 



February 19. We saw three males and 

 one female for a little while in the morning. 



February 21. Two lots (reported to me 

 as twenty or thirty) were seen by three 

 different people. 



EVENING GROSBEAK • 



February 23. Saw three this morning 

 and again in the afternoon. 



February 26. There were six of the 

 Grosbeaks in Mr. Tyler's yard. They 

 were feeding on maple seeds, found on 

 either side of the walk where the snow 

 was gone. " 



March 5. There were six of them in the 

 maples and evergreens in this same yard 

 this morning, and we saw them go down 

 to the walk and work at the maple seeds. 



I do not doubt but that these birds 

 have been here constantly since February 

 8, as a number of people have reported 

 seeing them, and I have seen them nearly 

 every time that I went out to look for 

 them. — Verdi Burtch, Branchport, N. Y. 



Nesting of the Carolina Wren 



Of this Wren Chapman says: "The 

 cozy nooks and corners about the home 



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