SPECIES 4. LOXM ENUCLEATOR. 

 PINE GROSBEAK. 



[Plate V. Fig. 2.] 



i,p, 299, 3. Le fiur-bec, ou Gros- 

 bec de Canada, BUFFOX, m,p. 457. PL. Enl. 135, \ EDW. 123, 

 124. LATH. 8yn. in, p. Ill, 5. PEALE'S Museum, JVo. 5652. 



THIS is perhaps one of the gayest plumaged land birds that 

 frequent the inhospitable regions of the north, whence they are 

 driven, as if with reluctance, by the rigours of winter, to visit 

 Canada, and some of the northern and middle states; returning 

 to Hudson's Bay so early as April. The specimen from which 

 our drawing was taken, was shot on a cedar tree, a few miles to 

 the north of Philadelphia, in the month of December; and a 

 faithful resemblance of the original, as it then appeared, is ex- 

 hibited in the plate. A few days afterwards, another bird of the 

 same species was killed not far from Gray's ferry, four miles 

 south of Philadelphia, which proved to be a female. In this 

 part of the state of Pennsylvania, they are rare birds, and sel- 

 dom seen. As they do not, to my knowledge, breed in any part 

 of this state, I am unable, from personal observation, to speak 

 of their manners or musical talents. Pennant says, they sing on 

 their first arrival in the country round Hudson's Bay, but soon 

 become silent; make their nest on trees, at a small height from 

 the ground, with sticks, and line it with feathers. The female 

 lays four white eggs, which are hatched in June. Foster ob- 

 serves, that they visit Hudson's Bay only in May, on their way 

 to the north; and are not observed to return in the autumn; 

 and that their food consists of birch-willow buds, and others of 

 the same nature.* 



* Phil. Trans. LXI1, p. 402. 



