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have lost in a measure their tribal organization, and to-day, April 30, 

 they are to be found in all parts of the grove, making love to each other 

 in much the same manner as Turtle Doves, seemingly well contented with 

 what I believe will prove to be their summer home."* 



GENUS PINICOLA VIEILLOT. 

 Pinicola enucleator canadensis (CAB.). 



Pine Grosbeak. 



DESCRIPTION (Plate 93). 



Bill and legs blackish. 



Male, adult. General color light rose-pink ; scapulars and feathers of back have 

 dusky centers, giving a spotted appearance ; belly and lower tail-coverts ashy or 

 whitish ; wings and tail dusky and edged with whitish ; wings have two wiiitish 

 bars. Female grayish with bright olive-yellow head and rump, and breast also, in 

 some specimens, with a tinge of same. The young resemble the female. Length 

 about 8f inches ; wing 4.60 ; tail 4.10. 



"Habitat. Northern North America in general, breeding from northern New 

 England, Labrador, etc., to Alaska (except coast south of the peninsula) and south 

 in higher Kocky mountains to Utah and Colorado ; in winter south to northern 

 United States." Ridg way. 



Irregular winter visitor, much oftener met with in the pine and hem- 

 lock forests of the northern parts of the state than elsewhere. This 

 species, when found here, is usually observed in small flocks, but often- 

 times individuals are seen in company with English Sparrows, Cross- 

 bills, etc. In the winter of 1889-90 Pine Grosbeaks were very common 

 in Susquehanna, "Wayne, Wyoming and Lackawanna counties, from 

 which localities the writer obtained, through the kindness of Mr. James 

 C. Smith, of Montrose, and Mr. Geo. P. Friant, of Scranton, over forty 

 specimens in various stages of plumage, fn the neighborhood of 

 Montrose, Susquehanna county, where these birds were particularly 

 numerous last winter (1889-90) they were called by boys and hunters 

 " Red English Sparrows." The stomach contents of twenty odd of these 

 birds examined by the writer consisted principally of small seeds and 

 buds. The buds of different trees, etc., are eaten by these Grosbeaks, 

 but those of the hickory and maple are fed upon to a very considerable 

 extent. 



* Mr. F. F. Castlebury, in a letter dated September 29. 1890, informs me that the Evening Grosbeaks 

 remained about Montoursville until May llth, when they disappeared, being driven away by a gunner 

 who killed and wounded several of them. Mr. Castlebury also adds that some of his neighbors claim 

 that these Grosbeaks were seen at different times during the summer, but he is under the impression 

 that the female Rose-breasted Grosbeaks (Habia ludoviciana). which were quite plentiful, were mis- 

 taken for the Evening Grosbeak. Mr. Ed. Allen, of Montoursville, to whom the writer is under obliga- 

 tions for several very fine specimens of Evening Grosbeaks, presented to Mr. F. F. Castlebury one of 

 these birds which had been crippled; this bird soon became so tame that it would take food from the 

 hand of its owner. 



