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GRANI VOROUS BIRDS. 
The length of the Cardinal Bird is about 8 inches, and 11 in alar 
dimensions. The whole upper parts are of a dull dusky-red, except 
the sides of the neck, head, and whole lower parts, which are of a 
clear vermilion. The chin, front, and lores black ; the head orna- 
mented with a high-pointed crest. Tail nearly even and long. Bill 
almost coral red. The legs and feet pale flesh-color, inclining to 
brownish. Irids dark hazel. 
EVENING GROSBEAK. 
(Fringilla vespertina, Cooper. Bonap. Am. Orh. ii. p. 75. pi. 15. 
fig-i-) 
Sp. Cfiaract. — Front and line over the eye yellow ; crown, wings, 
and tail black ; secondaries and inner great wing-coverts white j 
bill pale yellow. 
This recently discovered and beautiful species, like 
the following, appears to inhabit the solitudes of the 
Northwestern interior, being met with from the extrem- 
ity of the Michigan Territory to the Rocky Mountains. 
It is not uncommon towards the upper extremity of Lake 
Superior and the borders of Athabasca Lake ; to the east 
of these limits they only appear to be transient visitors in 
spring and fall. Their habits at the breeding-season are 
unknown ; but during the stay they make in the spring, 
in their migrating route, they appear to pass most of 
the day in the deep and lonely swamps, thickly over- 
grown with a gloomy and almost impervious forest of resi- 
nous evergreens. From these they sally forth in small fam- 
ilies to feed towards the approach of night ; and at this 
season, in the dusk of twilight, their strange and mourn- 
ful notes are heard from the forest, while the sad and 
serenading minstrel himself remains concealed ; though 
at other times they are so fearless or incautious as to 
suffer themselves to be seized almost by the hand. 
The Evening Grosbeak is inches long. The sides of the head, 
neck, both above and beneath, with the interscapulars and breast, 
