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PYRRHULA ENUCLEATOR. THE PINE 

 BULLFINCH. 



PINE GROSBEAK. GREATER BULLFINCH. 



Loxia Enucleator. Linn. Syst. Nat. I. 



Loxia Enucleator. Lath. Ind. Orn. I. 



Pine Grosbeak. Mont. Orn. Diet. 



Bouvreuil Dur-bec. Pyrrhula Enucleator. Temm. Man. d'Orn. T. 333. 



Pine Bullfinch. Pyrrhula Enucleator. Selb. Illustr. I. 334. 



Pyrrhula Enucleator. Pine Bullfinch. Jen. Brit. Vert. An. 14L 



Male with the head^ neck^ and fore part of the breast and rump 

 bright red^ the bach greyish-broion^ the feathers edged with red ; 

 the icings dushg^ with two white bars ; the lotcer parts light grey. 

 Female with the head yellowish-broivn^ the rump brownish-yellow^ 

 the rest of the plumage grey^ the wings as in the male. 



Male. — The Pine Bullfinch is the largest of our Passerine 

 species, and in colour bears a strong resemblance to the Com- 

 mon Crossbill, which it also resembles in its habits, haunts, 

 and mode of life. In form it presents nothing that essentially 

 differs from the Common Bullfinch, the body being moderately 

 stout, the neck short, the head ovate and rather large. The 

 bill is shortish, very strong, its outlines and sides convex, the 

 tip of the upper mandible considerably longer than that of the 

 lower. The mouth is of moderate width, the upper mandible 

 within deeply and widely concave, with five prominent lines 

 and corresponding grooves, the lower more deeply concave. 

 The tarsi are very short, compressed, with six anterior scutella, 

 and a posterior thin edge ; the toes slender and short, the first 

 proportionally stout, the third much longer than the two late- 

 ral, which are about equal; the claws rather long, arched, 

 much compressed, laterally grooved, and acute. The plumage 

 is soft, full, and rather blended, the feathers oblong. At the base 



