FRINGILLID.E — THE FINCHES. 



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Pinicola enucleator, Cabaxis. 



THE PINE GROSBEAK. 



Coccothraustes canadensis, Bkisson, Oni. Ill, 1760, 250, pi. xii, f. 3. "Corythus canadensis, 

 BiiEHM, Vogel Deutschlands " (1831 ?). Pinicola canadensis, Cabaxis, Mus. Hein. 1851, 

 167. — Baikd, Birds N. Am. 1858, 410. — Dall & Bannlster, Tr. Cliic. Ac. Sc. I, 

 1869, 281 (Alaska). — Cooper, Oni. Cal. I, 151. — Samuels, Birds N. Eng. 283. 

 Pinicola americnna (Cab. MSS.), Bp. Consp. 1850, 528. Loxia enucleator, Lixx. 

 Syst. Nat. ], 299. — FoRST. riiil. Trans. LXII, 1772, 383. — WiLS. Am. Orn. I, 1808, 

 80, pi. V. Pyrrhula enucleator, AuD. Orn. Biog. IV, 1838, 414, pi. ccclviii. Corythus 

 enucleator, Bonap. List. 1838. —Aud. Syn. 127. — Ib. Birds Am. Ill, 1841, 179, pi. 

 cxcix. — Box. & ScHLEGEL, Mon. des Loxiens, 1850, 9, pi. ix, xi, xii. — Deglaxd & 

 Gerbe, Orn. Europ. I, 258. Pinicola enucleator, Cabanis, Mus. Hein. I, 1851, 167. 



Sp. Char. Bill and legs black. ^Vale. 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 wing), abdomen, and posterior part of the body, A^•ith under tail-coverts, ashy, 



Pinicola enucleator. 



Avhitest behind. Wing with two white bands acrcss the tips of the greater and middle 

 coverts ; the outer edges of the quills also white, broadest on the tertiaries, 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 ash}^ 

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



A careful comparison of American with European specimens of the Pine 

 (irosl)eak does not present any tangible point of distinction, and it appears 

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

 World. There is considerable difference in the size, the proportions of the 

 bill, and the color of different specimens, l)ut none of appreciable geograph- 

 ical value. 



