4. ',4 



Noinil AMKIIKWN l!ll;i)S. 



Pinicola enucUato'-. 



A cuiisitliTaitle iiiimlter iA' specimens tVoiii Kodiak (]>erhaps to In* found in 

 otliLT localities on the northwest coast) compared with eastern have conspic- 

 uously larLjer hills, almost et[Ual to cnrdiHulis in this respect. In No. o4,4t)r) 

 the length from forehead is .SO ; from nostril, .oO ; from pii)e, .00 ; i,'onys, .40 ; 



j^reatest depth, .ol. In a lirooklyn 

 skin (12,S4<i) tlie same measurements 

 are from forehead, .00 ; fn)m nostril, 

 .44 ; from gape, .00 ; gonys, .:»4 ; great- 

 est depth, .40. A Saskatchewan skin 

 is intermediate. A European s})eci- 

 nien has the hill as Ioul* as that from 

 Kodiak, hut less swollen. A Hima- 

 laya.n species {C. suhJiiiiiarhnliix) is 

 nnich smaller, an<l dilferentlv colored. 

 These Kodiak specimens approach 

 the European hird more nearly in 

 form (»f the hill, in which there is a 

 tendency to a more aljrui)tly hooked 

 upper niandihle than in the birds 

 from the eastern jxjrtions of British 

 America. As a general thing, the 

 red tint is brighter in American than in European birds. 



H.vBiT."^. The Tine (Jrosbeak is, to a large extent, a resident of the por- 

 tions of North America north of the United States. In the northern pans 

 of New York, \'erniont, New liampshire, and Maine, as well as in western 

 America, it is found thntughout the year in the dark evergreen forests. In 

 the winter it is an irregular visitant as far south as Philadelphia, being in 

 some seasons very abundant, and again for several winters quite rare, 



^Ir. Boardman mentions it as abundant, in the winter, al>out Calais, and 

 Mr. Verrill gives it as quite common in the vicinity of Norway. It is 

 found every winter more or less fre([uently in Eastern ^Massachusetts, though 

 Mr. Allen regards it as rare in the vicinitv of S])rinufield. It is not cited 

 by Dr. Cottper as a ]>ird of Wa.shington Territory, but he mentions it as 

 not uncommon near the summits of the Sierra Nevada, latitude 39", in Sep- 

 tember. It probal)ly l)reeds there, as he found two birds in that region in 

 the young plumage. Tliev were feeding on spruce seeds when he first saw 

 them, and lingered even after their companions had been shot, and allowed 

 him to approach within a few feet of them. 



Mr. It. Brown (Ibis, 1808) states that during the winter of 1800, while 

 snow was lying on the ground, two pail's of this species were shot at Fort 

 Kupert, Vancouver Island. 



Wilson met with occasional specimens of these birds in the vicinity of 

 Philadelphia, generally in immature ]>lumage, and kept one several months, 

 to notii any change in its plumage. In the summer it lost all its red colors 



