_Hesperiphona vespertina vespertina_
A large, thick-set, heavy-billed, black and yellow
Finch. The male with the forehead and most of the
body yellow, the crown, wings and tail black; the
inner wing-quills white. The female is brownish
gray, more or less tinged with yellow, the wings
and tail black with white markings. L. 8.
_Range._ Western North America, wintering
regularly eastward to Minnesota and irregularly to
the North Atlantic States.
Glen Ellyn, one record, Dec. 11, 1889. SE. Minn.,
common W.V., Oct. 17-May 19.
[Illustration: EVENING GROSBEAK.