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unassu ming. They nest in colonies, building in bushes and 

 laying in April 3-5 bluish white eggs, strikingly blotched 

 and scrawled with blackish. 



FINCHES, SPARROWS, ETC. FAMILY FRIN- 

 GILLID^ 



EVENING GROSBEAK 



Besperiphona vesperlina vespertine 



A large, thick-set, heavy-billed, black and yellow Pinch. The 

 male with the forehead and most of the body yellow, the crown, 

 wings and tail black; the inner wing-quills white. The female 



Evening Grosbeak. 



Male and Female. 



is brownish gray, more or less tinged with yellow, the wings 

 and tail black with white markings. L. 8. 



Range. Western North America, wintering regularly east- 

 ward to Minnesota and irregularly to theiNorth Atlantic States. 



Glen Ellyn, one record, Dec. n, 1889. SE. Minn., common 

 W. V., Oct. 17-May 19. 



The Evening Grosbeak is a notable traveler from the 

 far northwest whose rare, irregular, and unheralded visits 



