FRINGILLA VESPERTINA. 
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blackish, obscurely margined with blue, and j 
tipped with white on the exterior web, constituting ( 
second band across the wings parallel to the first, 
much narrower ; the primaries and secondaries f 
blackish, obscurely margined with blue on the o' 1 | f 
web; the under wing-coverts are whitish, a 11 i 
intermixed with blue. The tail is slightly emargin- l ^ ( 
the feathers being blackish, edged with blue on 
outer web, and with white on the inner well at tip- t . 
The above description of this handsome bird is t* 
from a male in summer plumage, the only speci ^ 
brought by Long’s exploring party: hence we ^ 
unable to give any positive information relative to - 
female and young, though, from analogy, we must bel> i 
them in great part destitute of the blue colour, 
otherwise less brilliantly adorned. ^ 
This species appears to be rather rare ; it is it*,., 
along the Arkansaw river, near the base of the R * J | 
Mountains, during the summer months ; they frefi’^i 
the bushy valleys, keeping much in the grass, 
seldom alight on shrubs or trees. In this respect, 
they resemble the Indigo bird, and probably their Ip* 
are the same, although the note is entirely dissimu 
32. FKINallLA VESFERTINA, COOPER. 
EVENING GROSBEAK. 
BONAPARTE, PLATE XV. FIG. I. . 
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Few birds could form a more interesting ac 
to the Fauna of any country than this really find r^ t , 
beak. Beautiful in plumage, peculiar in its h» 
important to systematical writers, it combines 
tages of every kind. It was named and first des c S ( i 
by Mr Cooper, and little has since been discove' 1 ( ^|- 
its history to be added to the information he | iaS 
lectcd and given us in the journal above quoted. ^ t 
species appears to have an extensive range 
northern and north-western parts ot this con > ^ 
being met with from the extremity of the M lC 0 
