PINE-GROSBEAK. 



PASSERES. 



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 FRINGJLLID/F 



Pyrehula. enucleator (Linnreus*) . 

 THE PINE-GEOSBEAK. 



Pyrrhula enucleator. 



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

 though manj^ instances of its having been observed here are 

 on record. Scarcely any of them, however, withstand a 

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

 five at most seem to deserve serious attention. The earliest 

 of these is possibly that of a female, shot at Harrow-on-the- 

 Hill, 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 comes another hen-bird noticed in 



* Loxia enucleator, L\nr]?euf^, Syst. Nat. Ed. 12, i. ji. 299 (1766). 



