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Coues’s ~ History of the Evening Grosbeak. 
speedily became known to ornithologists of all parts of the world. 
The actual discovery of so welcome an addition to our recognized 
Fauna was made by Mr. Schoolcraft, who secured the original exam- 
ple of the species in April of the year 1823, at or near the Saute 
Sainte Marie, Michigan. This individual, upon its presentation to the 
Lyceum just named, became the basis of Mr. Cooper’s communica- 
tion, and was supposed for a little while to be the only representa- 
tive of the species known to naturalists ; but other specimens soon 
became available for the purposes of science. Thus Bonaparte, who 
first figured the interesting acquisition, in 1828, states that at this 
date he had examined two other specimens, besides Mr. School- 
craft’s, which had been shot early in the spring on Lake Athabasca, 
and were preserved in the Leadbeater collection in London ; one of 
them serving him for the elaborate description which he gives in 
his “ American Ornithology.” Soon after this, we find Sir John 
Richardson’s allusion to specimens sent to the authors of the “Fauna 
Boreali-Americana ” by Mr. Prudens, Chief Trader at Carlton House ; 
and this author remarks that the bird is a common inhabitant of 
the maple groves of the Saskatchewan region, — a circumstance from 
which its Cree Indian name Seesebasquit-pethaysish, or Sugar-Bird, is 
derived.* A very characteristic likeness of the male bird of natural 
[Fringilla vespertina, Coop.], etc., habitant le territoire N.-O. des Etats- 
Unis ; par William Cooper Feruss. Bull. 2® sect. VII, 1826, p. 110. 
Extrait des Annales du Lycee d’Hist. Nat. de New York, I, 1825, pp. 219- 
222 . 
1827. Lesson, R. P. Description d’une espece nouvelle de gros-bec [ Frin- 
gilla vespertina , Coop.], habitant la partie nord-ouest des Etats-Unis ; par 
William Cooper. . . . Feruss. Bull. 2® sect. XII, 1827, pp. 267, 268. 
Tire des Annal. de Philos. XI, 1826, pp. 134-136. 
1832. Cooper, W. Neue Gattung Kernbeisser [ Fringilla vespertina ]. 
Oken’s Isis, Bd. XXV, 1832, p. 1073. 
Auszug aus d. Ann. Lyc. Nat. Hist. New York, I, 1825, pp. 219-222. 
1855. Cottle, T. Coccothraustes vespertina. — Evening Grosbeak. Canad. 
Journ. Ill, 1855, p. 287. 
Historical and descriptive ; occurrence of the species in Canada. 
1869. Ivirtland, J. P. [Occurrence of Hesperiphona vespertina in Ohio.] 
Ohio Farmer, IX, March 24, 1860. 
The original ascription of the species to Ohio ; but it had been observed in 
that State in 1847. 
* The accompanying descriptions are of a male killed on the Saskatchewan in 
1829, and of a supposed female from some locality not stated; the latter is, 
however, the immature male; for Bonaparte, in stating that the female scarcely 
