226 SPARROWS AND FINCHES. 



1. CANADIAN PINE GROSBEAK, P. CANADENSIS. 

 8.60; rosy-red; back, obscurely spotted with dusky; two 

 Fig. 297. white wing bands, fig. 297. Female, 

 gray ; top of h e a d and rump, bronzy- 

 yellow. Young male, similar to female 

 but more or less red, depending upon 

 age. Breeds in northeastern N. A. from 

 New Brunswick north to the limits of the 

 coniferous forests; wandering south 

 when the coniferous seed crop fails, to 

 N. J., northern Ohio, Ind., and 111. ; cas- 

 ual further south. Occurs wherever it 

 can obtain food, which, with us, consists 

 of the fruit of the cedar, mountain ash, 

 common ash, etc. Yery unsuspicious. 

 Song, a low, continuous, quite sweet, 

 CC, F, s, 1. 1-5. warble; call, a loud, clear, double note. 

 Flight, swift, direct, and undulating. Gregarious in winter. 



t. Redpolls. Acanthis. 



Small birds with very short, pointed bills, long, pointed 

 wings, and long, forked tails ; streaked, often rosy ; tree-in- 

 habiting. Nests, in trees; eggs, pale blue dotted with black. 

 Gregarious. Flight, undulating. 



1. REDPOLL, A. LINARIA. Chord of upper mandible 

 straight ; ashy-white streaked above and below with dusky ; 

 crown, crimson; dusky, spot on throat; anterior parts below 

 and rump, rosy, plate 21. Female and young male, rosy tint- 

 ing absent; less crimson on crown. Northern part's of north- 

 ern hemisphere, breeding from the islands iathe Gulf of St. 

 Lawrence northward ; south irregularly when one source of 

 the food supply (seeds of birches) fails and another (weed 

 seeds) is covered by deep snows, to the more northern U. S., 

 rarely to Ya. and northern Ala. Common. Come south in 

 Nov. ; go north in March or early April. Song, a sweet, me- 

 lodious warble; call, a double note similar to that of the 

 Goldfinch, but not as clear; a kind of chatter when flying. 



