54 Birds of Canada. 



grayish-brown color. The Shore Lark is one of 

 our few winter birds ; in March it leaves for the 

 far north to breed. 



FAMILY FRINGILLID^:. 

 Sub-Family COCCOTHRAUSTIN^:. The Finches. 



Pinicola canadensis. The Pine Grosbeak. 



This bird visits us during the severest seasons 

 only. Its habitat is the extreme northern part 

 of this continent. Large numbers visited this 

 section of Canada in the winter of 1867. The 

 Pine Grosbeak is eight and a-half inches long ; 

 beak, dusky, very thick at the base, and hooked 

 at the tip ; head, neck, breast, and rump, rose- 

 colored crimson ; back, black ; greater wing- 

 coverts, tipped with white, forming two bars on 

 the wing ; quills, black, edged with white ; belly, 

 straw-colored. The female is brownish above, 

 greenish-yellow beneath ; the top of the head 

 and rump, brownish gamboge-yellow. Feeds 

 upon the small buds which shoot out from the 

 branches of the fir and other trees. 



Carpodacus purpurcus. The Purple Finch. 



The Purple Finch arrives here about the last 

 of April, in flocks of a dozen or more. It is six 



