EVENING GROSBEAK. 
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In ' '? loi 'y to the Rocky Mountains, within the same 
tailed ^ is common about the head of Lake Supe- 
^ L at Fond du Lac, and near the Athabasca Lake, 
(j eiv Were observed by Mr Schooleratt, during the 
g'^eek of April, 1823, about Sault Sainte Marie, 
hrti ® an Territory, where they remained but a short 
Ilof’c an< I have not appeared since ; arid by Major 
in the month of August of the same year, 
cj ( ~ the Savannah river, north-west from Lake Supe- 
s lv r ‘ They appear to retire during the day to the deep 
a t ??P8 of that lonely region, which are covered with 
n ri ‘ l( 'b growth of various trees of the coniferous order, 
Bi >ly leave them in small parties at the approach of 
0tl ] h Their note is strange and peculiar; and it is 
at twilight that they are heard crying in a siu- 
0l| 4I ' strain. This mournful sound, uttered at such an 
iJd hour, strikes the traveller’s ear, but the bird 
n u '. seldom seen; though, probably from its unac- 
C^nee with man, it is so remarkably tame and 
^nd 8 88 almost to suffer itself to be caught with the 
t], ae specimen of the evening grosbeak presented to 
"V , yceum of New York, by Mr Schoolcraft, from 
ti ri J ; .| * Mr Cooper established the species, was thought, 
litit ate *y. the only one in possession of civilized man; 
."’e have since examined two others shot early in the 
on the Athabasca Lake, near the Rocky' Moun- 
’’ and preserved among the endless treasures of 
is (1 , “dbeater of London. The subjoined description 
b 6 f^ are ftdly drawn up from a perfect specimen now 
lil,„ t '’ , |-" s , which Mr Leadbeater, with the most obliging 
a i* , t y, has confided to our charge, 
as (, | ° u g'h we consider the grosbeaks ( Coccothraustes ) 
, n a 'y a subgenus of our great genus l-'ringillu, they 
aj. " V ,"’ith equal propriety constitute one by themselves; 
w. ® ’ n sensible degrees by which intermediate species 
i u '' ,f mi one form into another, (which determined us 
a r 0!ls tdering them as a subgenus, and not a genus,) 
Mtn'' <|Ua Uy observable between other groups, though 
ltte d as genera. Coccothraustes is as much entitled 
