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February I, I have looked for Evening Grosbeaks, but up to date 

 have seen none in the neighborhood of Scarboro. — W. HORSEY. 



February 2, saw one specimen at North Toronto. — H. H. BROWN. 



February 8, saw large flock pass over my head. They passed and 

 repassed several times during the day. I collected two specimens at 

 corner of College and Spadina Avenue. — G. E. ATKINSON. 



February 8th, saw three small flocks on Carlton St., feeding on 

 mountain ash berries. In the afternoon I saw a flock of about thirty in 

 the Don Valley, feeding on the seeds of the white ash. I watched their 

 manner of feeding ; some of the birds cut the seeds off allowing them to 

 fall to the ground before eating them, others ate the seeds as they 

 picked them. I collected four specimens, two males and two females. 

 Their stomachs contained nothing but white ash seeds. — Wm. METCALFE. 



February 9th, I saw five males and four females in a mountain ash 

 tree on College Street, there were also several feeding on the ground. 

 I subsequently saw about fifty on Huron Street, they were nearly 

 equally divided between Pine and Evening Grosbeaks, I shot a female. 

 These birds were very tame, and I almost got near enough to knock 

 them over with a walking stick. I think the recent fall of snow has 

 driven them into the city in search of mountain ash berries, their 

 favorite food, the black ash seeds being too far under the snow. The 

 berries are eaten off nearly all the mountain ash trees. — H. H. BROWN. 



February 9th, I collected three in the city. — GEO. E. ATKINSON. 



February 9th, noticed a number of Grosbeaks in a mountain ash 

 tree on Rose Avenue, some of them were red plumaged, Pinicola 

 enucleator, while two were of the same species in female plumage, they 

 were feeding on the berries. On the ground was a female Coccotliraustes 

 vespertina, eating the fruit dropped by those in the tree, this is eminently 

 characteristic of both species. The Pine Grosbeak rarely feeds on the 

 ground, while the Evening Grosbeak commonly does so. Other flocks 

 of both species were observed flying in a southerly direction at a 

 considerable height. These flocks consisted of from half to a dozen 

 birds each. — ERNEST E. THOMPSON. 



February 10th, saw three Evening Grosbeaks on College Street. — C. 

 E. Pearson. 



February 10, saw a flock of about ten birds on Rose Avenue. — J. B. 



Williams. 



February 10, I secured three males and three females, two of the latter 



