290 ORNITHOLOGY AND OOLOGY. 
emphasis .on the second syllable. Occasionally, the male 
emits a continued warbling song, very similar to that of the 
- Canary-bird; and I have heard one of this species sing in 
confinement almost as sweetly and often as its more familiar 
and domesticated relative. 
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CHRYSOMITRIS PINUS.— Bonaparte. 
The Pine Finch. 
Fringilla pinus, Wilson. Am. Orn., II. (1810) 183. Aud. Orn. Biog., IT. (1834) 
455; V. 509. 
Chrysomitris pinus, Bonaparte. Consp. (1850), 515. 
DESCRIPTION. 
Tail deeply forked; above brownish-olive; beneath whitish, every feather 
streaked distinctly with dusky; concealed bases of tail feathers and quills, together 
with their inner edges, sulphur-yellow; outer edges of quills and tail feathers yel- 
lowish-green; two brownish-white bands on the wing. 
Length, four and seventy-five one-hundredths inches; wing, three inches; tail, 
two and twenty one-hundredths inches. 
This bird is found in New England, usually as a winter. 
visitor. While here, it has all the habits of the preceding 
species, and might, at a little distance, be mistaken for that 
bird. The Pine Finch, as its name implies, prefers the 
groves and forests of pines to other trees; and it is found in 
all our pine woods in flocks of twenty or thirty, where it 
feeds on the seeds contained in the cones on these trees. 
It has been known to breed in Cambridge, in this State ; and 
breeds regularly in the northern sections of New England. 
CURVIROSTRA, Scoro.t. 
Loxia, Linn xus, Syst. Nat., 1758. (Type Loxia curvirostra, L. Not of 1735, 
which has for type Lowia coccothraustes, L.) 
Curvirostra, Scorout, 1777. (Type L. curvirostra.) 
Mandibles much elongated, compressed, and attenuated; greatly curved or 
faleate, the points crossing or overlapping to a greater or less degree; tarsi very 
short; claws all very long, the lateral extending beyond the middle of the central; 
hind claw longer than its digit; wings very long and pointed, reaching beyond the 
middle of the narrow, forked tail. 
Colors reddish in the male. 
