Genus PINICOLA Vieillot. 

 PINICOLA ENUCLEATOR (Lixx.). 



211. Pine Grosbeak. (515) 



Male: — ("aniiiiie reil, palei' or whitish on the helly, darker and streaked 

 -with dusky on the l)ack ; wings and tail dusky, much edged with white, the 

 former with two white bars. Fciiiali- : — Ashy-gray, paler below, marked with 

 Ijrownish -yellow on the head and rump. Length, 8-9 ; wing, 4i ; tail, 4. 



Hab. — Northern portions of the northern hemisphere, breeding far north, in 

 winter, south, in North Ameiica, irregular^ to tlie Northern United States. 

 South in the Rocky ^Mountains to Colorado, and in tlie Sierra Nevada to 

 California. 



Nest, in a bush, four feet from the ground, composed entirely of coarse 

 green moss. 



Eggs, four, slate color, tinged with green, spotted and clouded with brown 

 and purple. 



In Southern Ontario the Pine (rrosbeak is an irregular winter 

 visitor, sometimes ap^jearing in large flocks and again being entirely 

 absent for several years in succession. During the winter of 1882-83, 

 and also of 1883-84, they were quite common, and were observed 

 "throughout the country, wherever their favorite red cedar or moun- 

 tain ash berries were to be found, but since that time not one has 

 been seen. They are fine, robust birds of a most sociable, gentle 

 disposition. I have often watched tliem feeding in flocks, sometimes 



