Jan., 1909. Birds of Illinois and Wisconsin — Cory. 609 



pairs nesting at Riverside, Illinois, and that they arrived in that 

 locality on the 17th of April." (Birds of the Chicago Area, 1907, p. 

 145.) Mr. Otto C. Poling found it "an abundant resident" in the 

 vicinity of Quincy, Adams County, Illinois. (The Auk, 1890, p. 243). 



In Wisconsin it is rare. Dr. Hoy (1852) states that a few speci- 

 mens formerly nested near Racine. Messrs. Kumlien & HoUister 

 (Birds of Wisconsin, 1903, p. 102) record three specimens from the 

 vicinity of Milwaukee and one or two others which they suppose 

 might have been escaped cage birds. 



The nest is a comparatively small structure of rootlets, shreds 

 of bark, etc., built in a low tree or bush. The eggs are 3 or 4, variable 

 in color, white or buff white or greenish white, marked, spotted and 

 speckled with various shades of brown and lilac gray, and measure 

 about I X .74 inches. There is a set of three eggs in the Field Museum 

 collection, taken at Poland, Ohio, May 19, 1891. 



Genus ZAMELODIA Coues. 



274. Zamelodia ludoviciana (Linn.). 

 Rose-breasted Grosbeak. 



Habia ludoviciana (Linn.), A .0. U. Check List, 1895, p. 250. 



Distr.: Eastern North America, and southern Canada, west to 

 Athabaska and Saskatchewan, south in winter to Central and north- 

 ern South America; breeds from North Carolina, Ohio, Illinois and 

 Nebraska northward. 



Adult male: Whole head, throat and back, black; breast and under 

 wing coverts, brilliant rosy red, rest of under parts, white; wings. 



Rose-breasted Grosbeak (male). 



