[ N NEW YORK. 
This time at Ballston Spa, N.Y., where 
three (3) fine J specimens were seen by myself. 
It registered 27° above, and there were three 
inches of snow on the ground. When first 
seen they were picking up sand, etc., on a bare 
bit of ground, but soon took wing and alighted 
in a maple near, but before I could step into 
the house for my gun, had departed for parts 
unknown, thus foiling me in my attempt to 
secure a specimen. S. B. Ingeraoll. 
March 30. 
IN .JORDAN, ONONDAGA CO., N.Y. 
On February 11th, while in Jordan, N.Y., a 
peculiar looking bird flew and lit almost over 
my head. A second glance showed to me that 
it was a 9 Evening Grosbeak. I sent a boy 
after a shot-gun and I watched the bird. She 
seemed very tame, as I stood within twenty 
feet of her all the time the boy was gone. But 
luck was against me, and the boy could not 
get a gun, and 1 had to go and get the gun 
and leave the boy to watch the bird. Well, to 
make the story short, while I was after the 
gun, the buss with bells on their horses went 
lumbering along under my bird, bound for 
depot to meet the next train, and my bird, the 
boy said, “took a sneak towards the other side 
of (the village) Jordan” ; and in a diligent search 
of three hours I failed to discover her. But as 
there are plenty of large Norway spruce and 
other evergreen trees in the village, a bird of 
that size and their habits, during the middle 
of the day, would have been easily overlooked. 
[ have skins in my cabinet of $ and 9 of this 
species, and am positive as to the identity. 
E. G. Tabor. 
Meridian, N.Y. 
0.v-a,waf t . t /rfa t /, yf. 
The Evening Grosbeak Comes East. 
XK iify ( / • V- 
In the Boston Transcript of January 30, 1890, 
Mr. Frank A. Bates made the first public an- 
nouncement of the capture in New England, at 
four different places, of the Evening Grosbeak 
a bird hitherto never seen here, having re- 
ported the fact at the meeting of the Boston 
Scientific Society on the previous evening. We 
append detailed records as sent us. 
IN NEW' YORK. 
A male and two female Evening Grosbeaks 
were shot here yesterday, January 20. 
Alvan II. Alberger. 
Ithaca, X. Y. 
Editor Ornithologist and Oologist: 
While out for a walk Sunday morning, Feb- 
ruary 9, I had the remarkable good luck to see 
six Evening Grosbeaks, three males and three 
females. These birds were so very tame they 
allowed me to approach very near to them and 
gave me a splendid chance to study the color- 
ings and markings of this beautiful bird. The 
males were wonderfully brilliant, and the 
females were very much like their lords only 
their plumage was not so bright and were 
somewhat smaller in size. 
This is not the first time this winter this 
bird has been found in this locality. 
D. C. Swift. 
Silver Creek, N.Y. . . 
Q.&O. XV, Feb. 1890 p 
‘ /a 3 
THE EVENING GROSBEAK. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
While making a professional visit one mile from the 
village on Feb. 14, my attention was called to the piping 
note of a strange laird" by a lady patient, with the request 
that I do something to keep it still, as it had annoyed her 
all the morning. On leaving the house I heard the sharp, 
shrill note repeated at intervals of about one minute, and 
saw a stranger sitting in a maple tree. After some delay 
I secured a gun and shot the bird. Great was my sur- 
prise when I picked it up to find I had secured a fine 
female evening grosbeak. The bird was evidently alone, 
as the lady who called my attention to it informed me 
that she had heard the bird since daylight, and it had 
been constantly piping its single note, until I came to the 
rescue about 11 A. M. A careful search failed to detect 
the presence of any other birds. I mounted the specimen, 
and it will hold a conspicuous place in my cabinet. This 
is the second instance of the capture of this bird in Che- 
mung county, as far as I know, the other one having 
been reported by Edward Swift, of Elmira, in December, 
1887. J. W. Gee, M.D. 
Van Ettenville, N. Y., Feb. 15. 
1869. 
Loring. 
Evening Grosbeak 
Ibid., pp. 64-65. 
in New York. By A. K. Fisher and J. Alden 
For, & Stream. Yol» 34, 
Fisher, A. K. Evening Grosbeaks in New York. (Forest & Stream, 
XXXIV, 1890, pp. 64, 65.) 
