418 PINE GROSBEAK. 
Loxra Enucrearor, Linn. Syst. Nat. vol. i. p. 299.—Lath. Ind. Ornith. vol. i. 
p- 372. 
Pine Grospeak, Loxia Enucreator, Wils. Amer. Ornith. vol. i. p. 80, pl. 5, fig. 2. 
Pyrraura Envuciearor, Oh. Bonaparte, Synopsis of Birds of United States, p. 119. 
Pyrravta (Corytuus) Envcteator, Richards. and Swains. Fauna Bor.-Amer. 
vol. il. p. 262. 
Pine Grosseak or Butirincn, Nuttall, Manual, vol. i. p. 535. 
Adult Male. Plate CCCLVIII. Fig. 1. 
Bill short, robust, bulging at the base, conical, acute ; upper man- 
dible with its dorsal outline convex, the sides convex, the edges sharp 
and overlapping ; lower mandible with the angle short and very broad, 
the dorsal line ascending and slightly convex, the sides rounded, the 
edges inflected ; the acute decurved tip of the upper mandible extend- 
ing considerably beyond that of the lower; the gape-line deflected at 
the base. 
Head rather large, ovate, flattened above ; neck short ; body full. 
Legs short, of moderate strength; tarsus short, compressed, with six 
anterior scutella, and two plates behind, forming a thin edge; toes 
short, the first proportionally stout, the third much longer than the 
two lateral, which are about equal; their scutella large, their lower 
surface with large pads covered with prominent papille. Claws rather 
long, arched, much compressed, laterally grooved, and acute. 
Plumage soft, full, rather blended, the feathers oblong. At the 
base of the upper mandible are strong bristly feathers directed for- 
wards. The wings of moderate length; the primaries rounded, the 
second and third longest, and with the fourth and fifth having their 
outer webs slightly cut out. Tail rather long, emarginate, of twelve 
strong, broad, obliquely rounded feathers. 
Bill reddish-brown. Iris hazel. Feet blackish-brown, claws black. 
_ The general colour of the plumage is bright carmine tinged with ver- 
milion; the feathers of the fore part of the back and the scapulars Ps 
greyish-brown in the centre; the bristly feathers at the base of the — 
bill blackish-brown; the middle of the breast, abdomen, and lower ¥ 
tail-coverts, light grey, the latter with a central dusky streak. Wings Z 
blackish-brown ; the primaries and their coverts narrowly edged with 
reddish-white, the secondaries more broadly with white ; the secondary 
coverts and first row of small coverts tipped with reddish-white, the — 
smaller coverts edged with red. 
