BULLETIN 
OF THE 
NUTTALL ORNITHOLOGICAL CLUB. 
Vol. IV. APRIL, 1879. No. 2. 
HISTORY OF THE EVENTING GROSBEAK .* 
BY ELLIOTT COUES. 
A bird of the most distinguished appearance, indeed, is the Even- 
ing Grosbeak, t whose very name of the “ Vesper-voiced ” suggests 
* By permission, from advance copy of “Birds of the Colorado Valley,” 
Vol. II. — Ed. 
f Hesperiphona vespertina. 
Fringilla vespertina, Cooper, Ann. Lyc. N. Y. I, Pt. II, 1825, 220 (descr. 
orig. Saute Ste. Marie, Michigan). — Coop., Annals of Philos. XI, 1826, 135. 
— Less., Feruss. Bull. 2® Sect. VII, 1826, 110. — Bp., Ann. Lyc. N. Y. II, 
1826, 113, No. 188. — Less., Feruss. Bull. 2® Sect. XII, 1827, 267. — Bp., Zool. 
Journ. IV, 1828, 2. — Bp., Am. Orn. II, 1828, 75, pi. 15, f. 1. — Nutt., 
Man. I, 1832, 594. — Cooper, Isis, XXV, 1832, 1073. — Aud., 0. B. IV, 
1838, 515, pis. 373^, 425 9 . — Towns., Journ. Phila. Acad. VIII, 1839, 154. 
Coccothraustes vespertina, Sw. & Rich., F. B. A. II, 1831, 269, pi. 68. — Bp., 
C. & G. L. 1838, 30. —Aud., Syn. 1839, 134. — Aud., B. A. Ill, 1841, 217, 
pi. 207. — Henry, Pr. Phila. Acad. 1855, 312 (New Mexico). — Cottle, 
Canad. Journ. Ill, 1855, 287 (Canada ; historical and descriptive). 
Coccothraustes vespertinus, Gamb., Journ. Phila. Acad. I, 1847, 49. — Scl., 
P. Z. S. 1860, 251 (Orizaba). —Scl., Cat. Am. Birft, 1862, 123. — Ridgw., 
Ann. Lyc. N. Y. X, 1874, 371 (Illinois). 
Cocoborus vespertinus, Hoy, Pr. Phila. Acad. 1853, 383 (Wisconsin). 
Hesperiphona vespertina, Bp., C. R. XXXI, 1850, 424 ; C. A. I, 1850, 505. — 
Bd., B. N. A. 1858, 409. — Henry, Pr. Phila. Acad. 1859, 107 (N. Mexico). 
— Coop. & Suckl., P. R. R. Rep. XII, Pt. II, 1859, 196. — Kirtland, Ohio 
Farmer, IX, of Mar. 24, 1860 (Ohio). — Wheaton, Ohio Agr. Rep. for 1860, 
1861. — Blakist., Ibis, 1862, 5 ; 1863, 69 (Fort Carlton). — Coues, Pr. Phila. 
Acad. 1866, 80 (Arizona). — McIlwraith, Pr. Essex Inst. V. 1866, 88 (Wood- 
stock, Canada). — Lawr., Ann. Lyc. N. Y. VIII, 1866, 289 (near New York 
City). — Coues, Pr. Essex Inst. V, 1868, 280, 312 (Canada and New York — 
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