76 TRANSACTIONS OF THE CANADIAN INSTITUTE. [VoL. III. 



REPORT OF THE OCCURRENCE OF THE EVENING 



GROSBEAK, (COCCOTHRAUSTES VESPERTINA), 



IN ONTARIO DURING THE WINTER OF 



1889-90. 



Being a summary of recorded observations of the occurrence of this 

 bird at Toronto, and other localities in Ontario; also notes on the 

 occurrence and habits of the bird in the Province of Manitoba, 

 collected and arranged by the Ornithological Sub-section of the 

 Canadian Institute. 



January 11, Mr. C. H. Baird, of Paris, Ont, has informed me that a 

 large flock of Grosbeaks were in that vicinity for some days at this date, 

 none were collected. — -J. EDMONDS. 



January 16, one female specimen collected from a flock of twenty 

 observed near Lome Park, about fourteen miles west of Toronto. The 

 gizzard was distended with choke cherry and haw stones, crushed by 

 the powerful beak of the bird. — E. E. THOMPSON. 



January 18, observed a solitary specimen on Wilcox St., feeding on 

 mountain ash berries, but failed to collect it. — G. E. ATKINSON. 



January 18, while walking in Rosedale I observed a large flock of 

 birds resting on some oak trees, and soon made them out to be Evening 

 Grosbeaks. I made a double shot but was much disappointed to find my 

 second shot had brought down an adult male Pine Grosbeak, however, 

 on stepping under the tree I was pleased to find as the result of the 

 first shot, my first Evening Grosbeak. Soon after I collected another 

 male and two fine females. — W. CROSS. 



January 19, saw a flock of eight Evening Grosbeaks resting on a tree 

 by the G. T. R. track, East Toronto. On the afternoon of the same day 

 I observed a flock flying over Winchester St., within city limits. 



January 21, Messrs. Mitchell, Gray and Marsh collected twenty-four 

 specimens, nine males and fifteen females, in Rosedale. I obtained six 

 of them and found them all very fat. Their crops were full of unbroken 

 pits of Prunns serotina, while their gizzards were crammed with the same 

 broken, sharp sand, and a few fragments of a shell, probably a Helix. — 

 D. G. Cox. 



January 21 to February 3, Evening Grosbeaks were common at the 

 Highland Creek, about fourteen miles east of Toronto. None were 

 observed at Claremont, ten miles to the north. — JAS. ANNIS. 



January 22, I again visited the locality in Rosedale where I had found 



