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species in this State is that mentioned by Dr. Kirtland in the Ohio 
Farmer, March 24, 1860. The full text of his note is as follows: 
Those of your readers who are interested in the Natural Sciences will no doubt be 
gratified to learn that so rare a bird as the Evening Grosbeak has made its appearance 
in these parts. Early last week a beautiful specimen of a female was secured by Charles 
Pease, Jr., and on the next day I saw several others of this species. It is known among 
ornithologists as the Hesperiphona vespertina, and has never before, I believe, been dis- 
covered east of Lake Michigan. Dr. Hoy, of Racine, Wisconsin, has occasionally met 
with it in that vicinity. From Lake Superior to Oregon is the usual limit of its loca- 
tions. Its appearance is both neat and uniqne. The several species of northern birds 
which usually visit us during winter were scarce the past season. No white owls, very 
few white snow-buntings, red-polls, and northern butcher-birds were seen. We secured 
a few Bohemian wax chatterers, che pine grosbeak, a: d several purple finches. Robins 
have been with us all winter. Tho supplies of flood influence the annual visits of these 
species. The wax-chatterers and robins were evidently attracted by the abundance of 
mountain-asb and red-cedar berries, and the fruits of the persimmon; and the purple 
finches and pire grosbeaks by the numerous cones of the larch pines and spruces which 
are growing about my premises. 
The Evening Grosbeak derives its common and scientific name from 
the erroneous belief that it sang only in the evening. They are de- 
scribed as occurring in loose flocks, and feeding on seeds and buds of 
trees. Their song is said to be a miserable failure. Nothing is known 
of its breeding habits. 
GENUS PINICOLA. Vieillot. 
Bill short, nearly as high as long, convex in all directions; basal third of upper man- 
dible concealed by bristly feathers. Tarsi shorter than middletoe. Wings rather longer 
than the emarginate tail. First primary rather shorter than the second, third, and 
fourth. ; 
PINICOLA ENUCLEATOR (L.) Cab. 
Pine Grosbeak. 
Corythus enucleator, READ, Proc. Phila. Acad. Nat. Sci, vi, 1853, 395. 
Pinicoia canadensis, WHEATON, Ohio Agric. Rep. for 1860, 365, 375; Reprint, 1861, 7, 17. 
Pinicola enucleator, Couns, Birds N. W., 1874, 105.—WuHEATON, Food of Birds, etc., Ohio 
Agric. Rep. for 1874, 566; Reprint, 1875, 6. 
Pine Grosbeak, KrRTLAND, Am. Journ. Sci. and Arts, xiii, 1852, 218; Ohio Farmer, ix, 
1860, 91. 
Loxia enucleator, LINNZUS, Syst. Nat., i, 1766, 299. 
Corythus enucleator, CUVIER. 
Pinicola canadensis, CABANIS, Mus. Hein., i, 1851, 167. 
Pinicola enucleator, CABANIS, Mus Hein., i, 1851, 167. 
Male carmine-red, paler or whitish on the belly, darker and streaked with dusky on 
the back; wings and tail dusky, much edged with white, the former with two white 
bars. Female ashy-gray, paler below, marked with brownish-yellow on the head and 
rump. Length, 8-9; wing, 44; tail, 4. 
