PYRRHULA ENUCLEATOR. 



FEMALE PINE BULLFINCH.* 



[Plate XVI. Fig. 3.] 



Loxia enucleator, Linn. Syst. i., p. 299, Sp. 3. Faun. Suec. Sp. 223. Sch^en, Act. 

 Holm. 1757, p. 139. Gmel. Sysi. i., p. 84.5, Sp. 3. Brunn. Sp. 239. Muller, 

 Sp. 246. BoRowsK. Nat. in., p. 133, Sp. 3. Lath. Lid. i., p. 372, Sp. 5. Retz, 

 Faun. Suec. p. 234, Sp. 211. Meyer & Wolf, Taschenr. Vog. Deutschl. i., p. 142. 

 — Loxia fiamengo, Mus. Carl.i. i. PI. 17. Gmel. Sy.it. i., p. 864, accid. var. — 

 Loxia pyrrhula, var. i. L.4TH. Ind. i., p. 388, Sp. 56, accid. var. — Coccothraustes 

 canadensis, Briss. Orn. in., p. 2.50, Sp. 15, PI. 12, fig. 3. Id. 8vo. i., p. 378. — 

 Pyrrhida enucleator, Temm. Man. Orn. i., p. 383. Sabine, Zool. App. to Frank. 

 Exp. p. 075. Breum. Le/ir. Eur. Vog. i., p. 169. Ranz. Elem. Orn. vi , p. 70, 

 Sp. 2. Selby, III. Brit. Orn. i., p. 256, PI. 53, fig. 1, Male, fig. 2, Female. Nob. 

 Obs. Wils. Nom. Cat. and Syn. Birds U. S. Sp. 193. — Corythus enucleator, Clv. 

 Rign. Anini. i. p. 392. — Strohilophaga enucleator, Vieill. Gal. Ois. i., PI. 53, 

 young Male. — Frinyilla enucleator, Meter, Syst. Taschenb. in., p. 250, Sp. 2. — 

 Ciufolotto snocciolatore, Ranz. loc. cit. — Dur-bec, Buff. Ois. in., p. 457. Gros- 

 bec du Canada, Id. PI. Enl. 135, fig. 1, Male a year old. — Eaken Kernbeisser, 

 Bechst. Nat. Deutsch. in., p. 28. Naum. Vog. Nachtr. PI. 19, fig. 30, Male, fig. 

 37, Female. — Dcr Fichten Kernbeisser, Meyer & Wolf, Vog. Deutuclil. 12, PI. 5, 

 fig. 1, young Male, fig. 2, old Female. — Greatest Bullfinch, Edivards. PI. 123, 

 young Male, PI. 24, adult Female. — Pine Grosbeak, Penn. Brit. Zool. Sp. 114, 

 PI. 49, fig. 2. Arct. Zool. ii., Sp. 209. Ellis, Narr. ii., p. 15. Lewin, Brit. 

 Birds, II., PI. 68. Lath. Syn. u., p. Ill, Sp. 5. Id. Suppl. p. 148. Mont. Orv. 

 Diet. I. Walck. Syli. PI. 207. DoNov. Brit. Birds, i., PI. 17. Bewick, Brit. 

 Birds, I., p. 135. Shaw's Zool. ix., p. 238, PI. 43. Ueers. ii., p. 106, Sp. 5.— 

 Flamingo Grosbeak, Lath. Spn. Sup>pl. p. 155, accid. var. 



The female Pine Bullfinch is eight and a half inches long, and thir- 

 teen and a half in e.xtent. The bill measures more than half an inch, 

 is blackish with the lower mandible paler at base, the feathers of the 

 whole head, neck, breast, and rump, orange, tipped with brownish, the 

 orange richer on the crown, where are a few blackish dots, the plumage 

 at base plumbeous : the back is cinereous, somewhat mixed with orange, 

 the shafts darker : belly and femorals pure cinereous : lower tail-coverts 

 whitish, shafted with dusky : the wings are four and a half inches long, 

 reaching beyond the middle of the tail : the smaller coverts are similar 

 to the back, cinereous slightly tinged with orange : middle and larger 



* See Wilson's American Ornithology, Pine Grosbeak, Loxia enucleator. Vol. il., 

 p. 56, PI. 5, Fig. 2, for the Male at the age of one year. 



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