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Genus PINICOLA Vikillot. 

 PINICOLA ENUCLEATOR (Linx.). 



211. Pine Grosbeak. (r)ir)) 



Male: — Carmine red, paler oi- whitish on tlie belly, darker and streaked 

 with dusky on the l)ack ; wings and tail dusky, much edged with white, the 

 former with two white l)ars. Female- : — Ashy-gray, paler below, marked with 

 brownish-yellow on the head and rump. Length, 8-9 ; wing, 4^ ; tail, 4. 



Hab. — Northern portions of the northern hemisphere, Ijreeding far north, in 

 winter, south, in North America, irregularly to the Northern United States. 

 South in the Rocky Mountains to Colorado, and in the Sierra Nevada to 

 ( 'alifornia. 



Nest, in a bu.sli, four feet fiom the gxiund. composed entirely of coarse 

 green moss. 



Eggs, fou)-, slate color, tinged with green, spotted and clouded with brown 

 and purple. 



In Southern Oiituiio the Pine Grosljeak is an irregular winter 

 visitor, sometimes appearing in large flocks and again being entirely 

 absent for several years in succession. During the winter of 1882-83, 

 and also of 1883-84, they were quite common, and were observed 

 throughout the country, wherever their favorite red cedar or moun- 

 tain ash berries were to be found, but since that time not one has 

 been seen. They are fine, robust birds of a most sociable, gentle 

 disposition. I have often watched them feeding in flocks, sometimes 



