We Pricr, Description of a New Pine Grosbeak. 185 
The next time I observed the species was in 1895. I obtained, 
June 27, a fine male near Silver Lake in Amador Co, (about 20 
miles due south of Pyramid Peak), and saw on the same date a 
female which was evidently its mate. No more were seen in that 
locality, but in July of the same summer I saw two or three indi- 
viduals in fir woods on Pyramid Peak, but secured none. 
Last summer, 1896, I again visited Pyramid Peak, and was 
fortunate in getting a fine series of /Prn7cola, 20 specimens in all, 
and of which all but 4 were available for examination in making 
the present report. I was assisted in my field work by Mr. C. 5. 
Dole, and Mr. P. O. Simons, and to their efforts is greatly due the 
large and interesting series. 
The greater number of adults were taken on the edges of alpine 
pastures where salt is placed on fallen logs for stock. The Pine 
Grosbeak visits these ‘salt licks’ in company with Cassin’s Purple 
Finch and the Western Evening Grosbeak, and was at all times 
exceedingly fearless and unsuspicious. The males have a very 
pleasing song, and hearing it upon one occasion, I thought it 
resembled the song of Carfodacus cassini. Their call-note is not 
loud and grating like the note of the Evening Grosbeak. 
They breed late, as attested by two nestlings brought to me 
July 29, by a camper, who found them on the lower branches of a 
fir in a wild glen at the western base of Pyramid Peak, at about 
gooo feet elevation. He did not see any nest, nor did the parent 
birds put in an appearance. The same day Mr. Dole and Mr. 
Simons each obtained a young specimen, perhaps five days older. 
These could fly quite easily. On August 3, while collecting in ‘a 
forest of fir east of Pyramid Peak, Mr. Dole obtained two addi- 
tional young, which were nearly full grown. ‘The female parent 
which was feeding them was also secured. 
The crop and stomach of an adult contained the soft leaf ends 
of Pinus murrayana and Abies magnifica, besides seeds and 
portions of various insects. . 
I have taken the following notes from Mr. Belding’s ‘Land 
Birds of the Pacific District’: ‘‘L. B.— Summit, Central Pacific 
Railroad (Placer Co.), August 11, 1882, tolerably common ; from 
June 23 to July 10, 1885, an adult male and female feeding in 
alders; during this time these only; but later in August and 
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