BY TEE WA YSIDE 
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Mazomanie, Wis., Feb. 5, 1913. 
Dear Wayside:— 
The Evening Grosbeak is a brownish 
yellow bird. I have seen it quite a few 
times in a hackberrv tree near the 
school house. Its wings, tail and 
crown are all black. The upper wings 
are white. Tt is six inches long and its 
song is something like the robin’s, it 
lias a cone-shaped bill. 
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The female is a brownish gray 
tinged with a little yellow. The Gros¬ 
beaks do not like hot weather. It is a 
pretty bird I think. It does not go 
down any farther south than southern 
Wisconsin or Illinois, 
j Yours truly, 
Willard Shanott. 
Age 10 years. 
Mazomanie, Wis., Feb. 5, 1913. 
Dear Wayside:— 
I have been studying about the Gros¬ 
beak. One noon one of the boys came 
in and said, ‘' There is a queer bird out 
there in the hackberry tree.” The 
teacher went out and we followed. It 
had black wings, tail and crown, with 
a little white in the upper part of its 
wings. I like the bird very much. 
That is what the father is like. The 
mother is a brownish gray bird tinged 
with yellow. It is six inches long. It 
has a song something like a robin. Tt 
has a cone-shaped bill. 
Yours truly, 
Alice Diment. 
Age ten. 
