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Evening grosbeak   /ˈivnɪŋ grˈoʊsbˌik/   Listen
Evening grosbeak

noun
1.
North American grosbeak.  Synonym: Hesperiphona vespertina.






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"Evening grosbeak" Quotes from Famous Books



... heads, shading to twilight down their backs, to black night on their wings, barred by a strip of clear white moonlight. They agreed that these were most unusual-looking creatures. How unusual any naturalist would have been glad to tell them; for these were that great and prized rarity, the Evening Grosbeak. So, too, in the pine woods they were showered by bits of cones, and looked aloft to make out a distant little bird busily engaged in tearing the cones to pieces. They laughed at his industry, but would have been immensely interested ...
— The Adventures of Bobby Orde • Stewart Edward White



Words linked to "Evening grosbeak" :   grosbeak, Hesperiphona, genus Hesperiphona, Hesperiphona vespertina, grossbeak



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