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PINE GROSSBEAK. 



PINE BULLFINCH. COMMON HAWFINCH. 



Loxia enucleator, PENNANT. MONTAGU. 



Corythus enucleator, FLEMING. 



Pyrrhula enucleator, SELBT. JENYNS. 



Loxia. Loxos Curved oblique. Enucleator One that takes out the 



kernel of a thing. 



So long ago, at the least, as the time of Horace, it would 

 seem to have been considered as a barbarism to compound 

 words of two different languages; 'Canusini more bilinguis;' 

 and whereas the name of Grosbeak, heretofore applied to the 

 bird before us, has been an instance of the fault in question, 

 it will be seen that I have changed it for one which has 

 the merit of being English in both its component parts alike. 



The Pine Grossbeak is a native of the northern regions of 

 Europe and America, but is found in the former, not only in 

 Siberia, Russia, Norway, Sweden, and Lapland, but also, 

 though rarely, in France, Germany, and Italy. 



In this country a few have occasionally been met with. A 

 flight were seen on the Denes, near Yarmouth, Norfolk, in 

 November, 1822; and in recording the circumstance in the 

 1 Account of the Birds found in Norfolk,' by John Henry 

 Gurney, Esq., and William Richard Fisher, Esq., it is added, 

 that two instances are on record of their having attempted 

 to breed in that district. In one of these cases, the nest 

 containing four eggs, was taken near Bungay; and it is said 

 to have been found on a low branch of a fir, near the stem 

 of the tree, and about three feet from the ground; in the 

 other instance, which occurred at Raveningham, the old 

 birds were shot while in the act of building. It has also 



