103 PINE GROSBEAK 
without effect. A new one which I have adopted this year is 
somewhat more complex. In addition to the straw bands, I have 
stretched long strings, with feathers attached here and there, so 
as to resemble the tail of a paper kite; and, by way of offering 
them an inducement to stay away, I have sprinkled peas on the 
ground in an adjoining lane, in the hope that they will partially, 
at least, satisfy their hunger on these. A bird with so strong a 
beak as that of the Bullfinch is evidently designed to crush its 
food, not to swallow it whole; accordingly, I find my peas disap- 
pearing, but the parchment-like rind is left on the ground, a sub- 
stance too indigestible even for the gizzard of a Bullfinch. This bird 
has, however, justly many friends, who assert that the buds heattacks 
are infested with concealed insects, and that the tree he strips one 
season will be heavily laden the following year. When not occupied 
in disbudding fruit-trees, Bullfinches are most frequently observed 
in tall and thick hedges, either in small flocks as described above, 
or in pairs. They are rarely met with singly, and yet less fre- 
quently associated with birds of another species. Occasionally 
a pair may be seen feeding with Sparrows and Chaffinches in the 
farmyard ; but this society seems one of accident rather than of 
choice. When disturbed in a hedge they are singularly methodical 
in their movements : first one flies out, bounds, as it were through 
the air in a direction away from the spectator, perches on a twig in 
the thick part of the hedge, and is followed by the rest of the party 
in single file. When the passenger has approached within what 
the bird considers a safe distance, the same manceuvre is repeated, 
each bird following, with dipping flight, the line marked out by its 
predecessor. 
PINE GROSBEAK 
PYRRHULA ENUCLEATOR 
Head and upper parts of the neck reddish orange, streaked on the back with 
dusky ; wings and tail black, the former with two white bars, the pri- 
maries and tail-feathers edged with orange, the secondaries with white 
under parts orange-yellow. Length seven and a quarter inches. Eggs 
white. 
A LARGE and handsome bird, inhabiting the Arctic regions during 
the summer months, and in winter descending a few degrees to the 
south in both hemispheres. It is of very rare occurrence in the 
ine-forests of Scotland, and a still more unfrequent visitor to 
ngland. The Pine Grosbeak, or Pine Bullfinch, is a bird of sociable 
habits, and an agreeable songster. 
