328 EVENING GROSBEAK. 
base of the inner vane; the two next only being tipt with 
white, the outer of which is also white on the exterior 
margin. 
EVENING GROSBEAK. (fringilla vespertina.) 
PLATE XV.—Fie. 1. 
Fringilla vespertina, Cooper, in Ann. Lyc. New York, i. p. 220.—WNob. Cat. Bird 
U.S. sp. 188, in Contr. Macl. Lyc. Phila. i. p. 21.—Id. Syn. Birds, U.S. 
sp. 188, in Ann. Lyc. NV. Y. ii. p. 113.—Id. Suppl. in Zool. Journ. London, 
iv. p. 2.—Cabinet of the Lyceum of Nat. Hist. of New York.—Myr Lead- 
beater’s Collection in London. 
COCCOTHRAUSTES? VESPERTINA.—CooPrEr.* 
Coccothraustes vespertina, Worth. Zool. ii. p. 269. 
Few birds could form a more interesting acquisition to the 
fauna of any country than this really fine grosbeak. Beautiful 
in plumage, peculiar in its habits, important to systematical 
writers, if combines advantages of every kind. It was named 
and first described by Mr Cooper, and little has since been 
discovered of its history to be added to the information he 
has collected and given us in the journal above quoted. The 
species appears to have an extensive range in the northern 
and north-western parts of this continent, being met with 
from the extremity of the Michigan territory to the Rocky 
Mountains, within the same parallels. It is common about 
the head of Lake Superior, at Fond du Lac, and near the 
Athabasca Lake. A few were observed by Mr Schooleraft, 
during the first week of April 1823, about Sault Sainte Marie, 
Michigan territory, where they remained but a short time, 
* In another note we remarked, that this genus was supplanted in 
America by Mr Swainson’s genus Guirauca, At that time we overlooked 
the evening grosbeak, which approaches nearer to our idea of the genus 
Coccothraustes than some of those which have lately been placed within 
it. And it will remain at present a question whether the present form 
be retained under that title, and the aberrant species separated, or the 
reverse. We do not consider that this bird can range with Gudraca.— 
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