EVENING GROSBEAK. 517 
mandible with the dorsal line very slightly convex, the sides rounded ; 
the edges sharp, overlapping, with a slight sinus close to the acute tip ; 
lower mandible with the angle very short and broad, the dorsal line 
straight, or very slightly concave, the back very broad, the sides rounded, 
the edges inflected, the tip acute. Nasal sinus extremely short and 
broad ; nostrils round, basal, concealed by short reflected bristly fea- 
thers. 
Head large, roundish-ovate ; neck short ; body moderately full. Feet 
short, of moderate strength; tarsus short, compressed, with seven an- 
terior scutella, and two plates behind forming a sharp edge ; hind toe 
large, outer toe somewhat longer than inner ; claws rather large, mo- 
derately arched, much compressed, acute. 
Plumage full, soft, blended, the feathers oblong. Wings rather long, 
broad, abruptly pointed ; the outer three primaries almost equal, the first 
longest ; outer secondaries emarginate. Tail of moderate length, ra- 
ther narrow, emarginate, of twelve rather narrow feathers. 
Bill yellow ; iris hazel; feet flesh-colour, claws brown. The upper 
part of the head and the occiput are brownish-black, bounded anteriorly 
by a broadish band of bright yellow across the forehead, and laterally 
by a streak of the same, passing over the eye; the stiff feathers over 
the nostrils black, as is the loral space. ‘The cheeks, hind neck, and 
throat are dark yellowish-olive, and that colour gradually brightens 
until, on the outer edges of the scapulars, the rump, the axillars and in- 
ner lower wing-coverts, the abdomen and lower tail-coverts, it becomes 
pure yellow. The smaller wing-coverts, alula, primary coverts, three 
outer secondaries, outer web of the next, and the bases of the inner 
secondaries, black ; as is the tail; six of the inner secondaries, inner 
web of the next, and inner margin of the rest, as well as their coverts 
white, the basal part excepted. 
Length to end of tail 8 inches ; wing from flexure 42; tail 3; bill 
along the ridge 43, along the edge of lower mandible }}; tarsus ?4 ; 
hind toe 7, its claw #4; middle toe 4, its claw #§. 
Adult Female. Plate CCCCXXIV. Fig. 5. 
The adult female, which is here figured and described for the first 
time, from a specimen obtained from Dr Townsenp, and marked 
* Black Hills, Female, June 3, 1834,” wants the yellow band on the 
forehead, the streak of the same colour over the eye, the black line 
