Birds of Canada. AQ 
grayish-brown color. The Shore Lark is one 
of our few winter birds; in March it leaves for 
the far north to breed. 
FAMILY FRINGILLID/. 
Sub-Faniily COCCOTHRAUSTINA.— Lhe Finches. 
Pinicola canadensis —The Pine Grosbeak. 
This bird visits us during the severest seasons 
only. Its habitat is the extreme northern part 
of this continent. Large numbers visited this 
section ef Canada in the winter of 1867. The 
Pine Grosbeak is eight and a-half inches long, 
beak, dusky, very thick at the base, and hooked 
at the tip:: head, neck, breast, and rump, rose- 
colored crimson; back, black; greater wing- 
coverts, tipped with white, forming two bars on 
the wing ; quills, black, edged with white; belly, 
straw-colored. The female is brownish above, 
greenish-yellow beneath; the top of the head 
and rump, brownish gamboge-yellow. Feeds 
upon the small buds which shoot out from the 
‘branches of the fir and other trees. 
Carpodacus purpureus—Vhe Purple Finch. 
The Purple Finch arrives here about the last 
of April in flocks of a dozen or more. It is six 
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