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stomach a strong gizzard ; intestine of moderate length and 

 width ; coeca very small. Nostrils round, concealed by re- 

 versed feathers. Eyes rather small. Head large, roundish- 

 ovate ; neck short ; body moderately stout. Tarsus short, 

 compressed, with seven scutella ; toes stout ; claws long, mo- 

 derately arched, compressed, acute. Plumage soft and full ; 

 wings of moderate length, the outer three quills nearly equal ; 

 tail rather long, deeply emarginate. 



This genus is closely allied to Pyrrhula, and perhaps still 

 more intimately to Loxia, although the bill has a very dif- 

 ferent aspect. 



132. CORYTHUS ENUCLEATOK. RED PINEFINCH. 



Male with the head, neck, and fore part of the breast and 

 rump bright red, or carmine tinged with vermilion, the back 

 greyish-brown, the feathers edged with red ; the wings dusky, 

 with two white bars ; the lower parts light grey. Female with 

 the head yellowish-brown, the rump brownish -yellow, the rest 

 of the plumage grey, the wings as in the male. Young like 

 the female. 



Male, 8J, . . , 4|, ||, T V, T 8 ^ T y. Female, 8J. 



The habits of this species are similar to those of the Cross- 

 bills. It occurs in the northern parts of both Continents, and 

 feeds on the seeds of pines, and various other plants. Pen- 

 nant mentions having met with it early in August in the pine 

 forest of Invercauld in Aberdeenshire, 



Pine Bullfinch. Pine Grosbeak. 



Loxia Enucleator, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. 299. Pyrrhula Enu- 

 cleator, Teimn. Man. d'Ornith. i. 333. Pyrrhula Enucleator, 

 Pine Bullfinch, MacGillivray, Brit. Birds, i. 411. 



GENUS LXVIL LOXIA. CROSSBILL. 



Bill of moderate length, very strong, subpentagonal and 

 rather higher than broad at the base, tapering, compressed 

 toward the end, with the tip laterally deflected and curved 

 in opposite directions ; upper mandible larger, with its dorsal 

 line convex, the ridge rather narrow, the tip decurved, com- 

 pressed, worn beneath to a thin edge, and slightly bent to 

 one side ; lower mandible with the angle very short and 

 broad, the dorsal line convex, the tip compressed, acute, and 

 deflected. Mouth rather narrow ; tongue slender, emarginate 



