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emphasis on the second syllable. Occasionally, the male 

 emits a continued warbling song, very similar to that of the 

 Canary-bird ; and I have heard one of this species sing in 

 confinement almost as sweetly and often as its more familiar 

 and domesticated relative. 



CHRYSOMITKIS PINUS, Bonaparte. 

 The Pine Finch. 



Fringillapims, Wilson. Am. Orn., II. (1810) 133. Aud. Orn. Biog., II. (1834) 

 455; V. 509. 



Chrysomitris pinus, Bonaparte. Consp. (1850), 515. 



DESCRIPTION. 



Tail deeply forked; above brownish-olive; beneath whitish, every feather 

 streaked distinctly with dusky ; concealed bases of tail feathers and quills, together 

 with their inner edges, sulphur-yellow ; outer edges of quills and tail feathers yel- 

 lowish-green ; two brownish- white bands on the wing. 



Length, four and seventy-five one-hundredths inches ; wing, three inches ; tail, 

 two and twenty one-hundredths inches. 



This bird is found in New England, usually as a winter 

 visitor. While here, it has all the habits of the preceding 

 species, and might, at a little distance, be mistaken for that 

 bird. The Pine Finch, as its name implies, prefers the 

 groves and forests of pines to other trees ; and it is found in 

 all our pine woods in flocks of twenty or thirty, where it 

 feeds on the seeds contained in the cones on these trees. 

 It has been known to breed in Cambridge, in this State ; but 

 I know nothing of its breeding habits. 



CURVTROSTRA, SCOPOLI. 



Loxia, LINNJSUS, Syst. Nat., 1758. (Type Loxia curvirostra, L. Not of 1735, 

 which has for type Loxia coccolkraustes, L.) 



Curvirostra, SCOPOLI, 1777. (Type L. curvirostra.) 



Mandibles much elongated, compressed, and attenuated; greatly curved or 

 falcate, the points crossing or overlapping to a greater or less degree ; tarsi very 

 short; claws all very long, the lateral extending beyond the middle of the central; 

 hind claw longer than its digit; wings very long and pointed, reaching beyond the 

 middle of the narrow, forked tail. 



Colors reddish in the male. 



