406 THE BIRDS OF HELIGOLAND 



207. Pine Grosbeak [FICHTENGIMPEL]. 

 PYRRHULA ENUCLEATOR, Temminck. 



Pyrrhula enucleator. Naumann, iv. 403. 



Pine Grosbeak. Dresser, iv. ill. 



Souvreuil dur-bec. Temminck, Manuel, i. 333, iii. 246. 



Up to the present I have not been so fortunate as to obtain 

 this very desirable bird. During Reymers' younger years two of 

 them were once caught here, one a carmine red, the other a 

 yellowish-grey specimen. As they were considered to be cock and 

 hen birds they were put into a spacious cage, into a corner of which 

 a large heather-broom was placed in the hope that the supposed pair 

 would be induced to nest. This, however, as might have been 

 expected, did not take place. Subsequently these birds came into 

 the possession of an Englishman, who took them over with him to 

 England. 



This handsome bird inhabits the coniferous forests of the Far 

 North of both the Old and New World, but on the approach of 

 winter seeks, as a rule, slightly lower latitudes. In the south of 

 Norway, however, e.g. at Christiania, it is seen in flocks numbering 

 from twenty to a hundred individuals, and is also caught in great 

 quantities ; nevertheless, not a single one comes to this island, 

 which is the more tantalising inasmuch as it has been repeatedly 

 captured in England. 



[To my great joy I am able to report that, after long waiting, my 

 desire to see this fine bird in my collection has at last been 

 gratified, a freshly shot beautiful old male having been brought to 

 me to-day (the 20th October 1890). The whole body of this bird is of 

 a pure and beautiful rose-carmine colour. The broad light edges 

 of the posterior flight-feathers, and greater and intermediate wing- 

 coverts, are nearly pure white, and add considerably to the bird's 

 distinguished appearance.] 



208. Sin ait ic Rose Finch [ROSENGIMPEL], 

 PYRRHULA ROSEA, Temminck. 1 



Pyrrhula rosea. Naumann, iv. 427 ; Blasius, Nachtrage, 195. 

 Bouvreuil pallas. Temminck, Manuel, i. 335, iii. 246. 



With the exception of the young autumn bird (Herbstvogel) already 

 mentioned by Blasius in his Supplements to Naumann, no other 



1 Carpodocus roseus (Pall.). 



