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Group 7. Wing, 4.25 to 4.75 inches long. 



First primary, not short, never less than two thirds as long as second or 

 third ; bill, stout and conical ; nostrils, high, near the culmen ; primaries, 

 nine ; tarsus, flattened behind. 



Throat, brownish olive, shading to 

 yellowish green on the belly ; wing, 

 black, with patch of white ; bill, yel- 

 lowish ; forehead, yellow ; crown, black 

 (male) ; forehead and crown, grayish 

 (female) . 



Evening Grosbeak. 

 Coccothraustes venpertinus. 

 See No. 387. 



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General plumage of body, rose red, 



more or less mixed with gray; tail, 

 dark brown; wings, brown, the cov- 

 erts and tertials, edged with white. 



Pine Grosbeak. 



Pinicola enucleator (malc~) 

 See No. 388. 



General plumage, gray; the crown and rump, tinged with yellowish olive; 

 wings, dark brown; the coverts and secondaries, edged with white. 



Pine Grosbeak. 



Pinicola enucleator (female) . 

 See No. 388. 



