518 EVENING GROSBEAK. 
along the basal margin of the upper mandible, and the large patch of 
white on the wings. The bill and feet are as in the male, but paler. 
The upper part of the head is dark brownish-olive ; the cheeks lighter ; 
the hind neck, back, and scapulars light brownish-grey, with a slight 
olivaceous tint, shaded into brownish-yellow on the rump. The wings 
are black ; a portion of the edge of the wing, the tips and part of the 
margins of the secondary coverts, a concealed band on the basal part 
of the primaries, the outer three excepted, and the edges of all the 
quills toward the end, white, which is broader on the secondaries, and 
forms a band on them. ‘Tail-coverts black, tipped with a triangular 
spot of white; tail-feathers also black, with a white spot on the inner 
web at the tip, eight-twelfths long on the outermost feather, gradually 
diminishing towards the central feathers, which are slightly tipped. 
Throat greyish-white, margined on either side by a longitudinal band 
of black, from the base of the lower mandible, and ten-twelfths in 
length ; the lower parts yellowish-grey ; abdomen and lower tail-coverts 
white, axillars and some of the lower wing-coverts yellow. 
Length to end of tail 74 inches ; wing from flexure 4}; tail 212; 
bill along the ridge 2%. 
Young Male. Plate CCCXXIV. Fig. 6. 
The young male bears a considerable resemblance to the female, 
differing chiefly in wanting the black bands on the throat, and in having 
the upper parts much lighter, and the lower more yellow. Bill yellow ; 
iris hazel; feet flesh-colour, claws dusky. Head and cheeks light grey- 
ish-brown, the rest of the upper parts of a paler tint, slightly tinged 
with yellow on the margins. The wings and tail are black, as in the 
female, and similarly spotted with white, but tinged with yellow. The 
lower parts are yellowish-grey, the sides of the neck and the axillars 
pale yellow, the abdomen and lower tail-coverts white. 
The young male has been described as the adult female by Mr 
Swatrnson in the Fauna Boreali-Americana, and has been made a dis- 
tinet species by M. Lesson, under the name of Coccothraustes Bona- 
partit. The Prince of Musicnano, it is observed, has erred in stating 
that “‘ no difference of any consequence is observable between the sexes ; 
though it might be said that the female is a little less in size, and ra- 
ther duller in plumage.” 
