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EVENING GROSBEAK. 
FRINGILLE VESPERTINE. 
Plate XV. Fig. 1. 
Fringilla vespertina, Cooper, in Ann. Lyc. New-York, I, p. 220. Nob. Cat. Birds, 
U. S. Sp. 188, in Contr. Macl. Lyc. Phila. I, p. 21. Id. Syn. Birds, U. 8 . 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. 
Few birds could form a more interesting acquisition to the 
Fauna of any country than this really fine Grosbeak. Beautiful 
in plumage, peculiar in its habits, important to systematical 
writers, it combines advantages of every kind. It was named 
and first described by Mr. Cooper, and little has since been 
discovered of its history to be added to the information he has 
collected and given us in the journal above quoted. The species 
appears to have an extensive range in the northern and north¬ 
western pai ts of this continent, being met with from the extremity 
of the Michigan Territory to the Rocky Mountains, within the 
same paiallels. It is common about the head of Lake Superior, 
Pond du Lac, and near the A.thabasca Lake. A. few were 
observed by Mr. Schoolcraft during the first week of April, 
1823, about Sault Sainte Marie, Michigan Territory, where they 
remained but a short time, and have not appeared since; and 
by Major Delafield in the month of August of the same year, 
near the Savannah river, north-west from Lake Superior. They 
appear to retire during the day to the deep swamps of that lonely 
