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yellow patch covering forehead and superciliary region; rest of 
head, with neck and back, uniform deep olivaceous, changing grad- 
ually to yellow on scapulars and posterior portions of body, above 
and below; wings, tail, and upper tail-coverts black; tertials uni- 
form dull white, the secondaries and inner webs of tail-feathers 
sometimes tipped with the same. Adult female: Whole top of head 
dull brownish or brownish-gray; rest of head, with neck and most 
of the body, lighter grayish, tinged more or less with olive-yellow, 
the throat bordered along each side by a dusky streak; a whitish 
patch at base of inner primaries. Young: Similar to adult female, 
but colors much duller and more brownish, with markings less 
sharply defined, the dusky streak on sides of throat sometimes 
nearly obsolete ; lower parts paler and more buffy, with little or 
none of gray; bill dull horn-color, or brownish instead of yellowish 
green. Length about 7.00-8.50, wing 4.20-4.50, tail 2.75-3.20, cul- 
men .75-.80, depth of bill at base .55-.70. Hab. Western North 
America, north to British Columbia and the Saskatchewan; east 
(irregularly, in winter) to Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois, and Iowa; 
casually to Ohio and Ontario; south over table-lands of Mexico to 
highlands of Vera Cruz. 
(57) 514. C. vespertinus (Coop.). Evening Grosbeak. 
b%, Adult male with head entirely black; adult female with top of head black 
(sharply defined), no dusky streak on sides of throat, and upper tail- 
coverts without white tips. Hab. Highlands of Guatemala and southern 
Mexico. 
C. abeillii (Lzss.). Abeille’s Grosbeak.} 
Genus PINICOLA VierLLor. (Page 382, pl. CV., fig. 2.) 
Species. 
Common CHaracters.—Adulé males: General color dull rose-pink or madder- 
pink (rarely varying to a light vermilion tint), changing to ash-gray on scapulars, 
flanks, belly, and under tail-coverts, the plumage everywhere being of this color be- 
neath the surface; scapulars and feathers of back dusky centrally, causing a spotted 
appearance; wings and tail dusky, the middle and greater coverts broadly tipped 
with white (this sometimes tinged with pink) and tertials broadly edged with same ; 
secondaries, primaries, and tail-feathers narrowly edged with light grayish. Adult 
females with wings and tail as in the male, but rest of plumage grayish, without 
any red, but changing to a more or less bright olive-tawny tint on head and lower 
rump, the breast sometimes tinged with same. Young: Similar to adult female, 
but colors duller and more blended, the wing-bands dull buffy instead of pure 
white, and texture of plumage very different. [Vote—Apparently adult males are 
occasionally found in which the plumage is not distinguishable from that of the 
1 Guiraca abeilléi Luss., Rev. Zool. 1839, 41. Coccothraustes abeillii Seu. & Saty., Ibis, 1859, 19. 
