314 BIRDS^ — FEINGILLID^. 



species in this State is that mentioned by Dr. Kirtland in the Ohio 

 Farmer, March 24, 1860. The full text of his note is as follows : 



Those of your readers who are interested in the Natural Sciences will no doubt be 

 gratified to learn that so rare a bird as the Evening Grosbeak has made its appearance 

 in these parts. Early last week a beautiful specimen of a female was secured by Charles 

 Pease, Jr., and on the next day I saw several others of Ihis sjjecies. It is known among 

 ornithologists as the Sesperiphona vespertina, and has never before, I believe, been dis- 

 covered east of Lake Michigan. Dr. Hoy, of Racine, Wisconsin, has occasionally met 

 with it in that vicinity. From Lake Superior to Oregon is the usual limit of its loca- 

 tions. Its appearance is both neat and unique. The several species of northern birds 

 which usually visit us during winter were scarce the past season. No white owls, very 

 few white snow buntings, red-polls, and northern butcher-birds were seen. ,We secured 

 a few Bohemian wax chatterers, one pine grosbeak, at d several purple finches. Robins 

 have been with us all winter. The supplies of flood influence the annual visits of these 

 species. The wax-chatterers and robins were evidently attracted by the abundance of 

 mountaiu-asb and red-cedar berries, and the fruits of the persimmon ; and the purple 

 finches and pine grosbeaks by the numerous cones of the larch pines and spruces which 

 are growing about my premises. 



The Evening Grosbeak derives its common and scientific name from 

 the erroneous belief that it sang only in the evening. They are de- 

 scribed as occurring in loose flocks, and feeding on seeds and buds of 

 trees. Their song is said to be a miserable failure. Nothing is known 

 of its breeding habits. 



Genus PINICOLA. Vieillot. 

 Bill short, nearly as high as long, convex in all direci ions ; basal third of upper man- 

 dible concealed by bristly feathers. Tarsi shorter than middle toe. Wings rather longer 

 than the emarginate tail. First primary rather shorter than the second, third, and 

 fourth. 



PiNICOLA ENUCLEATOE (L.) Cab. 



Pine Gi-rosbeah. 



Corythua enucleator, Read, Proo. Phila. Acad. Nat. Sci , vi, 1853, SQ."!. 



Pinioola canadensis, Wheaton, Ohio Agiio. Rep. for 1860, 365, 375; Reprint, 1861, 7, 17. 



Fimieola enucleator, Coues, Birds N. W., 1874, 105.— Whbaton, Food of Birds, etc., Ohio 



Agrio. Rep. for 1874, 566; Reprint, 1875, 6. 

 Pine Grosbeak, Kirtland, Am. Journ. Soi. and Arts, xiii, 1852, 218 ; Ohio Farmer, ix, 



1860, 91. 



Loxia enucleator, LiNNiEUS, Syst. Nat., i, 1766, 299. 

 Corythus enucleator, Ctjvieb. 



Pinioola canadensis, Cabanis, Mus. Hein., i, 1851, 167. 

 Pinioola enucleator, Cabanis, Mus Hein., i, 1851, 167. i 



Male carmine-red, paler or whitish on the belly, darker and streaked with dusky on 

 the back ; wings and tail dusky, much edged with white, the former with two white 

 bars. Female ashy-gray, paler below, marked with brownish-yellow on the head and 

 rump. Length, 8-9 ; wing, 4i ; tail, 4. 



