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Sp. Char. Hill jrrontly ci.ni.n.sso.I, an.) a.;,.!., h.uanis il,,. point Mai,. ,..„.,„;, , i 

 .ngcl wal. .lusKy a..oss the l,aH<; ,),.. si,,., of body und-.A; wi'^ . ™ Ji; 

 brown; Irom ,1,., nn,I,||,. of Im.IIv ,o ,l„. .ail-.ovorrs whi.isi, ,!„. h .:, ^ . • ' 



brown 8cap,.la,.swi.,s,an.nail .,)..,<; ,wo .,...1 l.an.ls on w 1 a ^ ^i , ^l ! 



" f^--'"*:"' ':•"' ' ''^'" '•"v-'t^ = wl.i,,. spots on ,1.0 ., r ,|M. inn..,- ,;,, i l' ! 



brown.!,, tn.gecl wi,l. olive-,,-...,, in pla.-.-s; ..a,,,..,, o,' ,|... 1.,,. .! , ^ i,,,': ^ 



en ,-c.s; n.n.p l„.i„,t In-ownish-ydlow. L..,.„|, , ,., ..,5, wi,.,, .... | > ' 



IlA... No,.H..,.,. parts of X..,.„, A,„..,.i..a ,..„....ally ; fl..o....la„d7KK,N, 1 ^ ' moi 

 8); Lnglan.], (Sq.ton.l,..,- 17, Gor,.,., JJj.-.l.s (;,,at. U,-i,ai,.). ' ' ' 



The white Lands ,.„ tl.o winj^s distinguisl. tl.is speci;s fro.n the pvo- 

 cocln,. aIth.,UKli there arc ,s,„ue other dillen.n.H.s in form of l.il .et 

 w.ng, etc. There is le,ss variation in forn, and color an,on. .speein.ens th.,n 

 n. the ,n.cedn.g. It diflers fron. the European analo,„e:Z. ..y;. V L " 

 conhn, to author,, in the n.ore sh.der hody and hiii, a,..! in ha i l' tie 

 baly pon.egranate-red, with hlackish hack, instead of cinnahar-re.I, ^s t 

 cur.>ro.frc, and anuria... J>.onaparte an.l Schleo.-] .^uote the Anu.ri.an 

 speces as occurnng in the Ilin.alaya Mountains, and perhaps Ja, , 

 throw douhts on the s.ipposed European localities 



Habits. Jioth the distribution and hahits of this species are prohal.ly in 

 all essential respects, the san.e with tho.se of the preceding. It is if a.y- 

 m.^ a n.ore n..thern l.ird, and it has not been detected J-ywlu-n; ,u. tiL 

 ac.hc coast south ot I5„tish An.erica. It was found in the^Arctic rcnon! 

 by S.r John Ihchurd.son, where the other species was not obscrve.1 « 

 found It inhabiting the dense white-spruce forests of the fur country, fc-din-. 

 pnncpally on the seeds of their .-ones. Up to the sixty-eighth pa alle e 

 found them rang.ng through the whole breadth of the c.fntimM.t. It is sup- 

 posed o go as far as these woods extend, though it has not bc-en traced 'f-.r 

 lier han the si.xty-sccond .legree. It was found fee.ling on the upper 

 branches chngn.g to then, when wounded, an.l remaining suspended i^en 

 after death In September they collected in small Hocks, and ilew from tree 

 to tree with a chattering noise. In the depth of winter they retire from the 

 coast to the thick woods of the interior. 



A few individuals of this species are reconled by Profes.so'r Ileinhardt as 

 having been taken in South (hecnland. 



In Penn.sylvania this species is much more rare than the nmnirana and 

 Wilson only met with a few specimens. .Since his .lay it has been f u d 

 more abundantly, occasionally in the neighborhood of L>hiladclphia 



wln^v 1 "'"'T ""' """ '•'"'■' """ ""' "'"«""»"" '-- ^^^"I'^to in the 

 winte &evc.-al specimens were obtained in February and April. Xone 



were iound there in the summer. He speaks of thei/great e.xpertiiess in 



opening the .spruce cones with their curved bills, an.l ext^cting the seeds 



Its appearance m Eastern Massachusetts is much more irregular b..th as to 



1808 and 18G9 they were uiH-ommonly abundant, appearing early in the fall 

 and remanung until duite late in the spring. They were even more fearless 



