EVENING GROSBEAK. 313 
and the dorsal surfaces showing no traces of the buffy suffusion and transverse vermi- 
culation usually observable in the young of this genus; the clear, pale bluish-ashy of 
its upper parts, with the conspicuously white rump and superciliary line, proclaimed its 
relationship at a glance. Its capture here will be regarded with interest by ornitholo- 
gists, this being the southeasternmost point at which it has been recorded; and is of 
additional significance on account of the occurrence here of the typical C. ludovicianus, 
which is a regular though somewhat rare summer resident in this vicinity, where it has 
been OT breeding on three occasions at least.” 
The habits, nest, and eggs, resemble thoze of the preceding variety. 
FAMILY FRINGILLIDA. FINCHES, ETC. 
Primaries nine. Bill traly conic, much shorter than the head, its commissure abruptly 
angulated near the base; no lobe along middle of the tomia, but usually a notch at end. 
Nostrils placed very high. Rictal bristles usually obvious. ‘Tarsus longer than lateral 
toe and claw. 
GENUS HESPERIPHONA. Bonaparte. 
Biil enormously large and stout. Wings very long and pointed, reaching beyond the 
middle of the tail. Primaries much longer than secondaries and tertials; outer two 
quills longest, the others rapidly graduated. Tail short, slightly forked, two-thirds the 
wing. Feet short; tarsus less than middle tee. Lateral toes nearly equal. Claws 
much curved, stout, compressed. 
HESsPERIPHONA VESPERTINA (Coop.) Bp. 
Eivening Grosbeak, 
Hesperiphona vespertina, KIRTLAND, Ohio Farmer (newspaper), ix, 1860, 91:-—WHEATON, 
Ohio Agric. Rep. for 1870, 365, 375; Reprint, 7, 17; Food of Birds, etc., Ohio Agric. 
Rep. for 1874, 566; Reprint, 1875, 6.—Cours, Key, 1872, 127; Birds of N. W., 1874, 
127; Bull. Nutt. Orn. Clab, iv, 1879, 74.—BarrD, BREWER and RipGway, N. A. Birds, 
i, 1874, 452. JorpDaAN, Man. Vert., 1878, 81. | 
Fringilla vespertina, Cooper, Ann. Lyc. N. Y., i, 1825, 220. 
Hesperiphona vespertina, BONAPARTE, C. R., xxxi, 1850, 424. 
Dusky olivaceous, brighter behind ; forehead, line over the eye, and under tail-coverts 
yellow; crown, wings, tail and tibiws black; the secondary quills mostly white; bill 
greenish-yellow, of immense size, about ? of an inch long and nearly as deep. Length, 
74-83; wing, 4-44; tail, 24. The female and young differ somewhat, but cannot be mis- 
taken. 
Habitat, Rocky Mountains to the Pacific; north to the Saskatchewan; south to Mex- 
ico; eastward along the northern tier of States to Lake Superior regularly; to Ohio, 
Canada, and New York City casually. Indiana (Jordan). 
In my catalogue of 1860 (1861) I mentioned the capture of a specimen 
in the vicinity of Columbus in 1847. I am now certain that this was an 
error on the part of my informant; the only known occurrence of the 
