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I.23X.87; I.27X.89; I.26X.89; I.27X.81; I.24X.84; I.3OX.91; 1.29 



X.84; 1.28X.90. The average size is 1.24 X .81. 



514 Coccothraustes vespertina (Coop.) [165.] 



Evening Grosbeak. 



Hab. Western North America, north to the Fur Countries; eastward, irregularly in winter to Michigan, 

 Wisconsin, Illinois, and Iowa; casually to Ohio and Ontario, south into Mexico. 



This handsome bird is not uncommon in various portions of western 

 North America, from the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific. It is a 

 common resident of the forests of Washington Territory, and also of 

 Oregon. In the latter region Dr. Merrill observed the birds carrying 

 building material to a huge fir tree, but was unable to locate the nest, 

 and the tree was practically inaccessible. Mr. Walter E. Bryant 

 was the first to record an authentic nest and eggs of the Evening 

 Grosbeak. In a paper read before the California Academy of Sciences, 

 June 20, 1887, he describes a nest of this species containing four eggs, 

 found by Mr. E. H. Fiske, in Yolo county, California. The nest was 

 taken May 10, 1886, but the eggs could not be preserved, as incu- 

 bation was so far advanced. In general shape, color, and markings, 

 they were similar to the eggs of the Black-headed Grosbeak, but in 

 size, Mr. Fiske thinks, they were somewhat larger. The nest was 

 built in a small live oak, at a height of ten feet, and was a more pre- 

 tentious structure than is usually built by the Black-headed Grosbeak, 

 being composed of small twigs supporting a thin layer of fibrous bark 

 and a lining of horse hair. 



June 5, 1884, Mr. John Swinburne found a nest of the Evening 

 Grosbeak in a thickly wooded canon, about fifteen miles west of 

 Springerville, Apache county, Arizona. The nest was placed about 

 fifteen feet from the ground, in the top of a small willow bush, on the 

 border of a stream. It was a comparatively slight structure, rather 

 flat, and composed of small sticks and roots, lined with finer portions of 

 the latter. This nest contained three fresh eggs of a clear greenish- 

 ground color, blotched with pale brown. 



This is all the information we have at present regarding the nests 

 and eggs of the Evening Grosbeak. 



515 Pinicola enucleator canadensis (Cab.) [166.] 



American Pine Grosbeak. 



Hab. Northern North America in general. Breeds from northern New England, Labrador, etc., to 

 Alaska, (except the coast south of the peninsula), and south in the higher Rocky Mountain regions to Col- 

 orado and Utah; in winter south to Northern United States. 



This large, handsome Grosbeak is resident in Northern New Eng- 

 land, elsewhere in the Northern and Eastern States it is a winter 

 migrant. Mr. Boardman found a nest with two eggs in it at Calais, 

 Maine, supposed to belong to this species. Dr. Coues found it breeding 



