1<'RINGILLID.E — Tilii FINCHES. 



453 



Pinicola enucleator, ( abaxis. 



THE PINE GROSBEAK. 



Coccolhrausks caiunkn-iis, lliussoN, Oiii. Ill, 17tiO, -I'M, \A. xii, f. 3. " Conjthiis caiuuknsis, 

 BuKHll, Viigcl Dcutschliiiuls " (1831 ?). Finicola canacUiisis, Cabanis, Mus. Hein. 1S51, 

 167. — Baiuu, Birds N. Am. 1838, 410. — Dall & Banni-stki!, fi: Chic. Ac. Sc. I, 

 1869, 281 (Alaska). — C'oopKit, Orn. Cal. I, 151. — Samuels, Birds N. Eng. 283. 

 Pinicola americaiui (Cab. MSS.), Br. Consp. 1850, 528. Loxiu enudeatnr, Lixx. 

 Syst. Nat. I, 299. — FoRST. Phil. Traii.s. LXII, 1772, 383. — Wils. Am. Orn. I, 1808, 

 80, pi. V. Pyrrhula cnmlcator, AuD. Orn. Biog. IV, 1838, 411, pi. ccdviii. Corylhas 

 enucleator, Boxap. List. 1838. —AuD. Syn. 127. — Im. Birds Am. Ill, 1841, 179, pi. 

 c.xci.x. — Box. & ScHLEGEL, Mon. des Loxieus, 1850, 9, pi. ix, xi, xii. — Degland & 

 Gehbe, Orn. Eiirop. I, 258. Pinicola enucleator, Cabaxis, ilus. Hein. I, 1851, 167. 



Sp. Cjiau. Bill and legs black. Male. General color light carmine-red or rose, not 

 continuous above, however, except on the head ; the feathers showing brownish centres 

 on the back, where, too, the red is darker. Loral region, base of lower jaw all round, sides 

 (under the wingj, abdomen, and posterior part of the body, with under tail-coverts, ashy, 



Pinicoh eilt'rleator. 



whitest behind. Wing with two white bands acro,«s tlie tijis of the greater and middle 

 coverts ; the outer edges of the quills also white, broadest on the tertiai-ies, on secondaries 

 tinged with red. Female ashy, brownish above, tinged with greenish-yellow beneath ; 

 top of head, rump, and upper tail-coverts brownish gamboge-yellow. Wings much as in 

 the male. Length about 8.50 ; wing, 4.50 ; tail, 4.00. Young like female, but more ashy. 

 Hab. Arctic America, south to United States in severe winters. 



A careful comparison of American with European .specimens of the Tine 

 Gro.sheak does not present any tangible point of distinction, and it appears 

 inexpedient to preserve the name of canadensis for the bird of the Xew 

 World. There is consideralile difference in the size, the projKirtions of the 

 bill, and the color of dilferent specimen.s, but none of ajjpreciable geograph- 

 ical \alue. 



