PASSE RES. 



PINE-GROSBEAK. 177 



FRINGlLLlDrt 



flPf 



Pyrrhula enucleator (Linnseus*). 



THE PINE-GROSBEAK. 



Pyrrhula enucleator. 



The Pine-Grosbeak is a very rare bird in this country, 

 though many instances of its having been observed here arc 

 on record. Scarcely any of them, however, withstand ;i 

 critical examination, and out of sonic two dozen, but four or 

 five at most seem to deserve serious attention. The earliest 

 of these is possibly that of a female, shot .it I larrou -on-the- 

 llill, and mentioned in former editions of this work as being 

 in the Author's collection, whence it has passed to that of 

 Mr. Bond. Next there conies another hen-bird noticed in 



* Loxia enucleator, Linn reus, Syst. Nat. Ed. 12, i. p. 299 (1766) 



