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Bird - Lore 



The Evening Grosbeak in Vermont 



In a sugar snow-storm, on March n, 

 a flock of eighteen Evening Grosbeaks 

 came to our trees. They were high at 

 first, but came lower until they were as 

 close to us as the branches reached. My 

 husband and I saw them perfectly, and, 

 comparing them with the colored cuts in 

 Bird-Lore of Nov .-Dec, 191 1. found them 

 identical. They were eating maple buds 

 and, later, locust-seeds. We spread the 

 news up and down the street, as the birds 

 went from place to place, and many came 

 out and admired them. Several times they 

 seemed pleased to come as near to us as 

 they could without leaving the trees, once 

 being only fifteen feet away. They made 

 a chirp somewhat like that of an English 

 Sparrow, but more musical, and a short 

 trill, or "gz." They stayed for hours. 

 The flock was first seen on March 3, and 

 individuals (females) several times later, 

 but they were not recognized. 



Two Pine Grosbeaks were identified 

 both by appearance and by call notes on 

 March 2, and a large flock of Horned 

 Larks came on March 3. — Eliza F. Mil- 

 ler, Bethel, V. 



Evening Grosbeaks in the White 

 Mountains 



A correspondent well acquainted with 

 birds sends me in lilt, the following note 

 on Evening Grosbeaks seen by members of 

 the Appalachian Mountain Club party 

 which visited the White Mountains, New 

 Hampshire, around Washington's Birth- 

 day, 1913: ". . . There were Evening 

 Grosbeaks seen in Jackson by two of our 

 party. One lady was walking alone down 

 by Glen Station, and was attracted by a 

 bird which she had an excellent chance to 

 watch for several minutes, as it sat quite 

 still. She had her glasses and could see 

 every mark. She could hardly believe 

 that he had seen a male Evening Gros- 

 beak, but he had every mark as it is 

 given in the books, and since she has 

 come home she has examined a stuffed 

 specimen. Another lady saw, the next 



day, several miles from this place, a 

 small flock of birds, two or three of which 

 she saw clearly and reported that they 

 too were the Evening Grosbeaks. Neither 

 had ever seen these birds alive, before, but 

 both are very familiar with our usual 

 birds and migrants; so it seems as if there 

 could be no mistake." — Charles H. 

 Rogers, New York City. 



The Evening Grosbeak in New Jersey 



In the Christmas Bird Census for 1911 

 there were many observations of the 

 Evening Grosbeak in northern New Jersey. 

 In 191 2, not one was noted in the state. 

 As my note of "A November Black- 

 throated Blue Warbler" seems to have 

 been of interest to several Bird-Lore 

 readers, I am emboldened to add another 

 observation. At noon on January 2, 191 2, 

 I saw a male Evening Grosbeak and a pair 

 of Cardinals sitting in a forsythia bush 

 ten feet from a window, and in a tree over- 

 hanging the bush sat six Robins. The 

 weather was cold, with snow on the ground. 

 The Cardinals had come for the daily 

 supply of corn thrown from the window. 

 The Evening Grosbeak stayed about for 

 an hour, then was seen no more. I had 

 never before seen an Evening Grosbeak, 

 but was familiar with them from museum 

 specimens, and from the Bird-Lore col- 

 ored print which adorned the wall of my 

 summer home one whole summer. — Isabel 

 D. Martin, Princeton, N. J. 



A Baltimore Oriole in Winter 



On January 15, 1913, I observed a male 

 Baltimore Oriole in first-year plumage, at 

 the home of H. D. Rymer, a farmer living 

 near Columbiana, Ohio. 



The Oriole first appeared a few days 

 before Christmas, and has been feeding 

 there regularly ever since. While I was 

 observing him, he went from the suet to 

 an orchard where he was eating apples 

 that remained on the trees. Mr. Rymer 

 informs me that when he first appeared his 

 feathers were ruffled, and he did not seem 

 to be in nearly so good condition as at the 



