. Michigan bird life : a list of all the bird species known to occur in the State together with an outline of their classification and an account of the life history of each species, with special reference to its relation to agriculture ... . ake Superior andcasually to Michigan, Ohio, Ontario, New York and New England. The Evening Grosbeak is doubly interesting to Michigan bird loversnot only because it is a rare and beautiful bird, but because the first speci-men known to science, the type from which the specieswas described, was takennear Sault Ste. Marie, Mich.,in April, 1823, by School-cr
. Michigan bird life : a list of all the bird species known to occur in the State together with an outline of their classification and an account of the life history of each species, with special reference to its relation to agriculture ... . ake Superior andcasually to Michigan, Ohio, Ontario, New York and New England. The Evening Grosbeak is doubly interesting to Michigan bird loversnot only because it is a rare and beautiful bird, but because the first speci-men known to science, the type from which the specieswas described, was takennear Sault Ste. Marie, Mich.,in April, 1823, by School-craft, and described byCooper, in January, 1825,under the name Fringillavespertina, the specific namegiven apparently under thebelief that the bird sangoftenest or best at a matter of fact, the songappears to be the least inter-esting of its characteristics,nor does it appear to singbetter or more frequently atevening than at other Stewart E. White, whoobserved these grosbeakscarefully at Grand Rapidsfrom March 5 to May 14,1890, says of their song: The males have a single Fig. no. Evening Grosbeak. Adult. metallic crv like the note of ^O^ North .\merican Fauna No. 16. Biological Survey, a trumpet, the females a loud. U. S. Department of Agriculture. chattering like the large Cherry Birds {Ampelis garrulus). This was inMarch, but on April 14, just before they withdrew to their summer home,Mr. White adds, Their song now is a wandering, jerky warble, beginninglow, suddenly increasing in power, and as suddenly ceasing as if the singerwere out of breath (Auk, Vol. IX, 1892, p. 245). It may be objected that this was not nesting time and the locality nothome. However, J. K. Townsend, who studied tliis bird along the ColumbiaRiver in May 1836, Avrote for Audubons work the following account of thecall-note and song. It is stated that they are retiring and silent duringthe day and sing only at the approach of evening. Here they are re-markably noisy during the whole of
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