. Birds & nature. Birds; Natural history. THE EVENING ANDSOMER b i r d s there may be, but in the opinion of many this visitant to various portions of west- ern North America is in shape, color, and markings one of the most exquisite of the feather-wearers. It has for its habitation the region extending from the plains to the Pa- cific ocean and from Mexico into British America. Toward the North it ranges further to the east ; so that, while it appears to be not micommon about Lake Superior, it has been reported as occuring in Ohio, New York, and Can- ada. In Illinois it was obs
. Birds & nature. Birds; Natural history. THE EVENING ANDSOMER b i r d s there may be, but in the opinion of many this visitant to various portions of west- ern North America is in shape, color, and markings one of the most exquisite of the feather-wearers. It has for its habitation the region extending from the plains to the Pa- cific ocean and from Mexico into British America. Toward the North it ranges further to the east ; so that, while it appears to be not micommon about Lake Superior, it has been reported as occuring in Ohio, New York, and Can- ada. In Illinois it was observed at Freeport during the winter of 1870 and 1871, and at Waukegan during January, 1873. It is a common resi- dent of the forests of the State of Washington, and also of Oregon. In the latter region Dr. Merrill observed the birds carrying building material to a huge fir tree, but was imable to locate the nest, and the tree was practically inaccessable. Mr. Walter E. Bryant was the first to record an authentic nest and eggs of the Evening Gros- beak. In a paper read before the Cal- ifornia Academy of Sciences he de- scribes a nest of this species containing four eggs, found in Yolo county, Cal- ifornia. The nest was built in a small live oak, at a height of ten feet, and was composed of small twigs support- ing a thin layer of fibrous bark and a lining of horse hair. The eggs are of a clear greenish-ground color, blotched with pale brown. According to Mr. Davie, one of the leading authorities on North American birds, little if any more information has been obtained regarding the nests and eggs of the Evening Grosbeak. As to its habits, Mr. O. P. Day says, that about the year 1872, while hunt- ing during fine autumn weather in the woods about Eureka, Illinois, he fell in with a number of these Grosbeaks. They were feeding in the tree tops no the seeds of the sugar maple, just then ripenmg, and were excessively fat. They were very unsuspicious, and for a long time suffered liim
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