25, Pipilo YiEHvLOT. Six species. 



26, Cardiaalia Bonaparte. One 



27, Pyrrhuloxia Bonaparte. " 



28, Habia, Reichenbach. Two 



29, Gairaca Swainson. One 



30, Passerina Vieillot. Four 



31, Sporophila Cabanis. One 



32, Euetheia Reichenbach. " 



33, Spiza Bonaparte. " 



34, Calamospiza Bonaparte. " 



EVENING GROSBEAK. 



Coccothraustes vespertina Gambel. 



Plate XXI. Fig. 1. 



D^HE AUTUMN landscape of last fall was exceptionally beautiful. The leaves of 

 many trees and shrubs and even herbs were glowing in purple, red, violet, yellow, 

 and brown tints. The first light firost had changed the color of the leaves of the stags- 

 horn sumach, the sugar maple, and the Virginia creeper into the most beautiful red 

 and purple, and these gorgeous colors were glowing in the woods like flames of fire and 

 could be seen from a far distance. This beautiful autumn was followed by a very cold 

 winter. Although the winters of Wisconsin are cold and changeable, they are not 

 entirely without pleasure. The trees and shrubs of our garden have lost their beauty 

 and the ground is covered with snow, but our mountain ash trees are still covered with 

 bunches of red berries, which are sought in the early morning by our feathered winter 

 visitants from more northern regions, who occupy the places of our summer sojourners 

 that migrated southward. As soon as the sun rises, our trees are alive with peculiar 

 and lovely birds. By the beginning of January Bohemian Waxwings appeared in great 

 numbers, and Cedarbirds were also present. After being through with their meal they 

 disappeared, returning, however, once or twice in the course of the day. On a very 

 bright, cold morning I observed near my window, among a flock of Waxwings, scarcely 

 ten feet away, two beautiful birds with thick bills, clad in a robe of gold, olive, brown, 

 yellow, and white. These birds, as irregular in their appearance in winter as the 

 Bohemian Waxwings, were Evening Grosbeaks. These visitors from the primeval 

 evergreen forests of British America are rarely seen in Wisconsin. They suddenly appear 

 in one winter and may not occur again in five or ten years. They did not show any- 

 thing of the restlessness and voracity of their companions, being very quiet and slow 

 in their movements. While the Waxwings were quick and restless at their meals, the 

 Evening Grosbeaks took their time, eating the berries with leisure. They only seemed 



