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end of the wing three inches two lines : breadth, wings extended, nine 

 inches nine lines. 



DESCRIPT. (Male.) Crown and occiput, base of the bill, throat, wings, 

 and tail, velvet black tinged with purple: nape and back bluish ash: 

 cheeks, sides and under part of the neck, breast, belly, and flanks, bright 

 tile-red : rump, vent, and under tail-coverts, white : greater wing-coverts 

 tipped with grayish white, shewing a transverse bar across the wing : 

 bill and feet dusky brown. (Female.) Upper parts bluish ash, with a 

 tinge of yellowish brown : under parts reddish brown : less white on the 

 rump. (Egg.) Pale blue, speckled and streaked with purplish gray and 

 dark purple : long. diam. nine lines and a half; trans, diam. seven lines. 



Common in most parts of the country. Frequents woods, gardens, and 

 orchards. Food seeds and the buds of trees. Nest generally placed in 

 thick bushes ; composed of dry twigs, and lined with fibrous roots. Eggs 

 four or five ; hatched towards the end of May. 



103. P. Enucleator, Temm. (Pine Bullfinch.) Ge- 

 neral plumage reddish orange, spotted on the back and 

 scapulars with dusky brown. 



P. Enucleator, Temm. Man. d'Orn. torn. i. p. 333. Pine Gros- 

 beak, Mont. Orn. Diet. Bew. Brit. Birds, vol. i. p. 161. Pine 

 Bullfinch, Selb. Illust. vol. i. p. 334. pi. 53*. f. 1, 2. 



DIMENS. Entire length seven inches four or five lines. TEMM. 



DESCRIPT. (Adult male.) Head, throat, neck, and under parts, fine 

 reddish orange, inclining to yellowish orange on the breast and belly: 

 the feathers on the back, scapulars, and rump, deep brown, broadly bor- 

 dered with yellowish orange : wings and tail black ; the former with two 

 transverse white bars : secondaries edged with white ; primaries and tail- 

 feathers, with orange. (Young male.) Head, neck, throat, breast, and 

 rump, bright crimson ; feathers on the back and scapulars broadly bor- 

 dered with the same colour : the transverse bars on the wings, and the 

 edging of the secondary quills, likewise crimson : flanks, belly, and vent, 

 cinereous, tinged with red. (Female.) Head, nape, and rump, yellowish 

 brown, more or less inclining to orange: back and scapulars cinereous 

 brown : under parts ash-gray very faintly tinged with yellowish orange : 

 the transverse bars on the wings grayish white, and not so broad as in the 

 other sex; quills edged with greenish orange. (Egg.) White: long, 

 diam. one inch one line; trans, diam. ten lines. 



An occasional visitant in the northern districts of Scotland, but very 

 rare. According to Messrs. C. & J. Paget (Nat. Hist, of Yarm. p. 6.) 

 a flight was once observed near Yarmouth. Partial to pine-forests.. 

 Food seeds and berries. Breeds within the Arctic Circle. Nest placed 

 in trees, not far from the ground, formed of twigs and sticks, and lined 

 with feathers. Eggs four in number. 



GEN. 31. LOXIA, Briss. 



104. L. curvirostra, Linn. (Common Cross-Bill.)-^ 

 Bill as long as the middle toe, moderately hooked ; the 

 crossing point of the lower mandible passing beyond the 

 ridge of the upper. 



