PASSERES. ( 178 ) FRINGILLID^. 



THE PINE GROSBEAK. 



THE PINE BULLFINCH, GREATER BULLFINCH. 



Pyrrhula enucleat07\ 



Who for the luorthless bird of brighter plumes 

 Would change the meanest warbler of my grove ? 



Shenstone, Elegies. 



There is a record of the occurrence of this very rare bird 

 in the parish of Eccles, Berwickshire, by Eobert Dundas 

 Thomson, M.D., F.E.S., who drew iip the revised Eeport on 

 that parish for the Neiv Statistical Account of Scotland in 

 May 1834. Dr. Thomson was a Member of the Eoyal 

 Societies of London and Edinburgh, and was one of the nine 

 original Members of the Berwickshire Naturalists' Club at 

 its institution on the 22nd of September 1831.^ 



Mr. Seebohm says that the Pine Grosbeak is a circum- 

 polar bird, breeding in the forests at or near the Arctic Circle, 

 and that it inhabits pine-woods and feeds upon the buds 

 of various forest trees, the seeds of fir cones, and the berries 

 of various shrubs, especially those of southernwood. 



1 He was born in the Old Manse of Eccles, in 1811. 



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