348 PINE GROSBEAK. 



309. Pins, Pine Grosbeak, JJr. Z««/..i. N" 114.— J^/iu. 123. 



LeDur-'bec, Tie Buff on. Hi. 444.— /'/. Enh 135. 

 Loxia enucleator. L. Canadenfis, Lin. Syft. 299, 304, 

 Tallbic, Swanfk-Papgoia, Faun. Suec. N° zz^.— Latham, ii. III.— Lev. Mus.. 



/^R. With a very ftrong thick bill, hooked at the end: head, and 

 upper part of the body, of a rich crimfon ; each feather marked 

 with black in the middle: lefler coverts incline to orange; the 

 others duflcy, croITed by two white lines : the primaries and tail 

 dufky : lower part of the neck, breaft, and belly, of a pale crim- 

 fon : vent cinereous : legs black. Female of a dull dirty green ; 

 twice the fize of the EngUJh Bullfinch. 

 Place. Inhabits Hudfon's Bay *, Newfoundland, and Canada,, and as far as 



the weftern fide of North America: vifits Hudfon's Bay, in April: 

 frequents the groves of pines and junipers : fings on its firft arrival, 

 but foon grows filent : makes its neft on trees, at a fmall height from 

 the ground, with flicks, and lines it with feathers. Lays four white 

 eggs, which are hatched in June. The clerk of the California ob- 

 ferved thefe birds firft on the 25th of January : they fed on the 

 poplar tree f. It is remarked, that birds of plain colors only in- 

 habit the frigid climates : but this gay bird is an exception. 



It is likewife an inhabitant of the northern parts of Europe, as 

 far as Drontheim ; and in Jfia, in all the pine forefts : is frequenc 

 in Sibiria, and the north of Rtiffia: is taken in autumn about 

 Peterjhurg, and brought to market in plenty. In fpring it retires 

 to Lapland. 



I have feen them in the pine forefts near Invereauld, in the county 

 of Aberdeen, in Scotlmd, in the month of Auguft; therefore fufpedt 

 they breed there. 



• Ph. Tranf. Ixii. f 'V- '« Hud/on'' s Baj, ii. 5. • 



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