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flig:yit sT/ept over the open hill-top to a cluster of gray- 
birches beyond,-where they sat as inactive as before for many 
minutes, finally flying off in a northwesterly direction 
until lost of sight in far distance. Nor are they know to 
have ever returned after this. 
On 
After examining the ground close to the house, on 
or over vihich they have been feeding mostly, I found it 
thickly strewn v/ith white ash seeds, evidently scattered 
wudely by strong winds for very many were not under any tree 
from which they could have come. There were also less 
n-umerous box elder seeds, beneath two well grown trees of 
that species, and these. Miss E§,ton thinks, may have supplied 
most of the food of the Grosbeaks for she did not see them 
eating the white ash seeds although Purple Finches had been 
feasting on them for a week or more and were still doing 
so when I was there. It is noteworthy, if not also rather 
remarkable, that this flock of Eteening Grosbeaks, like that 
viewed by me at Lexington on January 24, should have sud¬ 
denly increased from a lesser n-umber to just eleven members, 
on the occasion of my only visit to their haunts and after 
that should never have been seen there again by any one I 
Early in the morning of May 4, a solitary male 
Evening Grosbeak paid our Farm a fleeting visit. He was 
first seen, just as/were sitting down to breakfast, crossing 
