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Purple Finches, TVee, Fox and White-crowned Sparrows. My inclinations lean toward snow.
The Evening Grosbeak is not only exotic, it is of great interest in the history of American ornithology. By the end of the 18th century, most birds of North America had been noted and described even before John James Audubon and the father of American ornithology, Alexander Wilson, arrived to enhance them through their art.
The Evening Grosbeak was not known to science until 1823, when one was shot with an arrow by an Indian boy near Saulte Ste. Marie, Mich. Ornithologist, William Cooper, received the stuffed skin of the bird and wrote: “During severe winters in the north, some species of birds extend their migrations farther south than usual. This (the grosbeak) appears to have been the case during the past season.”
He went on the describe the bird as “ ...yellowish and cinerous, of the grosbec (his spelling) species, ...appeared this day in the neighborhood of one of the sugar-camps on the river. The Chippewas call it Pashcundamo, in allusion to the stoutness of its bill, and consequent capacity for breaking surfaces.” The Chippewas, at any rate, were familiar enough with the bird to give it a common name. I don’t know what was meant by “...breaking surfaces.”
It was exciting to ornithologists for a new species to be described, Elliot Coues (pronounced cows) dominated American ornithology in the last quarter of the 19th century; he wrote “...A bird of the
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