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THE PINE BULLFINCH, 



of a bright red ; the back greyish brown, the feathers being 

 edged with red ; the wings dusky, with two white bars ; 

 the lower parts light grey. 



Macgillivray includes this species in his work on British 

 birds, on the authority of Pennant, who mentions having 

 met with it early in August in the pine forests of Invercault 

 in Aberdeenshire, and supposed that they bred there ; but 

 no subsequent British author speaks of it from personal 

 observation. It is just possible that the bird may be a 

 permanent resident, but scarcely likely. We must there- 

 fore be content to assign to it the rank of a rare occasional 

 visitant only. 



North America appears to be the only part of the globe 

 in which the habits of the Pine Grosbeak have been 

 attentively observed. Its food is said to consist of seeds 

 and berries. It frequents pine forests, builds a nest of 

 small sticks, with a lining of feathers, and generally places 

 it on a branch of a tree a few feet only above the ground. 

 It lays four or five white eggs, about an inch long ; the 

 young are hatched in June. The male has an agreeable 

 song, and will sometimes sing at night. In confinement it 

 continues to sing the year through. 



GOLDFINCH. 



THE GOLDFINCH (Carduelis elegans). The Carduelis, 

 or Thistlefinch genus, has two British representatives, of 



