CARPODACUS GITHAGINEUS. PINICOLA ENUCLEATOR. 417 



CARPODACUS GITHAGINEUS (H. Licbtenstein) . 

 [^ 2246. One.— Yrom Dr. Baldanms, 18G1. 



Given to me by the Doctor at Osteruienburg'.] 



[§ 2247. TeH.—TeucYiffe, Canary Islands. From Senor 

 Gomez, through Mr. Dresser, ISS'J.] 



[§ 224S. O/w.—LiUord Aviarv, 1893. From Lord Lilford.] 



PINICOLA ENUCLEATOR (Liuuceus). 

 PINE-GROSBEAK. 



The Pine-Grosbeak, though plentiful in Sweden during the winter, 

 has been supposed to go to the east for the breeding-season ; and, 

 generally speaking, this is probably true ; but in the northern and 

 eastern part of Swedish Lapland, as well as in Finnish Lapland, a 

 few Pine-Grosbeaks make their nests 



As the days grew longer I eagerly listened to the beautiful clear 

 music of the bird in more than one locality; and one snowy mornioo" 

 I saw a hen watching me so very unconcernedly from a tree^ that I 

 climbed up to try to catch her in ray hand. It was not until I nearly 

 touched her that she flew off, as though she thought I was carrying 

 the joke too far, but in a way that convinced me she had no 

 nest 



I had made arrangements for working another part of the country, 

 but I left a trusty Lapp in strict charge to visit a spot in Finland 

 where I had ascertained that in previous years the bird had bred. 

 On my return to that neighbourhood at the end of summer, I 

 watched day after day for the arrival of my faithful Lapp. The 

 nights were already becoming dark, when one evening^ I saw the 



^ [Sunday the 12th of August, as I find from ]\Ir. Hudleston's journal of 18.55. 

 The " trusty Lapp," as will immediately be seen, was Martin Piety, who brou"-ht 

 with him Mikel Sadio, one of the brothers who next year made the great Waxwiu"- 

 discovery (c/. antea, pp. 213-224), and my belief is that this was the first time 

 Mr. Wolley met any one of that remarkable family. — Ed.] 



