PINE GROSBEAK. 



the eye yellow, crown sepia or smoky black, tail and wings 

 the same, but the upper, shorter wing-feathers white, sides 

 of the head and the neck brown-olive, rump, belly, and 

 scapulars (i.e. feathers at top of wing over the white ones) 

 dull yellow. Nest not very well known, lodged fifteen feet 

 or more above the ground, usually in an evergreen tree, 

 and built of twigs, bark, rootlets, etc., lined with softer 

 material. Egg, pale blue-green flecked with brown ocher. 

 The range of this species is from western Alberta, southern 

 Saskatchewan and Manitoba to Missouri, Ohio, and Ken- 

 tucky, and irregularly to Pennsylvania, New York, and New 

 England. It breeds only in the extreme northwest. 



The Song of the Evening Grosbeak is heard only within 

 the limits of its breeding grounds; there is no musical 

 record of it, so far as I know. One call note has two or 

 three syllables, and is rather high-pitched, the other, an 

 occasional one, is a short pianissimo whistle, still high- 

 pitched and not unlike that of the Rose-breasted Grosbeak. 



The bill is extremely large, which may account in a meas- 

 ure for the nature of the song which has been described as 

 an irregular warble in a full rich tone of voice, beginning 

 pianissimo and ending abruptly fortissimo. I have only 

 these records of the call notes taken in winter in northern 

 New Hampshire. The bird is remarkably fearless. 



Pine Grosbeak The Pine Grosbeak is a handsome, rosy- 

 imcoh feathered, boreal character, a common 



winter visitant of northern and central New 

 L. 9.92 inches Hampshire, and more or less of all New York 

 Winter and New England. On February 1, 1919, 



Mr. Forbush writes, "The Pine Grosbeaks which have been 

 abundant in northern New England since December have 

 worked southward until they have reached the southern- 

 most States of the region, and have even appeared on the 

 large islands along the coast. Their numbers in northern 



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