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EVENING GROSBEAK. 
it is one of these specimens, with a few streaks of red, that we 
have selected for the sake of ornamenting the plate, as well as 
to exemplify the manner in which the change takes place. No 
such mark appears at first. 
In the adult, the whole head, neck, and breast, are brig^ht 
and deep scarlet, with the feathers black at base ; the back, 
scapulars, and smaller wing-coverts, are rich glossy black ; the 
rump, upper tail-coverts, and from the breast beneath, white, 
the bottom of the plumage being plumbeous, and the tail- 
coverts with blackish shafts; the wings and tail are black ; the 
lower wing- coverts pure white, with the margin of the wing 
deep black ; the secondaries are white, shafted to near the tip 
with black ; the last of the primaries being also white at tip, 
and on the greater part of the base of the outer vane ; the 
small lanceolate outer feather is white, black on the shaft and 
base of the inner vane ; the two next only being tipped with 
white, the outer of which is also white on the exterior margin. 
EVENING GROSBEAK FRINGILLA VESPERTINA. 
Plate XV. Fig. 1. 
Fringilla vespertina, Cooper, in Ann. Lyc. New York, i. p. 220. Noh. Cat. Birds 
U.S. sp. 188, in Contr. Macl. Lyc. Phila. i. p. 21. Id. Syn. Birds. U.S. sp. 
188, in Ann. Lyc. N. Y. ii. p. 113. Id. Suppl. in Zool. Journ. London, iv. p. 2. 
Cabinet of the Lyceum of Nat. Hist, of New York — Mr Leadbeater’s Collection 
in London. 
COCCOTHRA USTES? VESPERTINA — Cooper.* 
Coccothraustes vespertina. North. Zool. ii. p. 269. 
Few birds could form a more interesting acquisition to the 
Fauna of any country than this really fine grosbeak. Beauti- 
* In another note we remarked, that this genus was supplanted in America 
by Mr Swainson’s genus Guiraca. At that time we overlooked the evening 
grosbeak, which approaches nearer to our idea of the genus Coccothraustes, than 
some of those which have lately been placed within it. And it will remain at pre- 
sent a question whether the present form be retained under that title, and the 
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