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are like the females at firft, changing by degrees into the fine red 
colour; but the adult female feldom gets any other tinge than 
olive green; however, this rule is not conftant, as both fexes ap- 
pear very different, even at different times of the year. 
This fpecies is a conftant inhabitant of Sweden, Germany, Po- 
land, Switzerland, Ruffia, and Sibiria, where it breeds ; but migrates 
fometimes in vaft flocks into other countries, as is now and then 
the cafe in refpect to England; for though in fome years a few are 
met with, yet in others it has been known to vifit us by 
thoufands, fixing on fuch fpots as are planted with pines, for the 
fake of the feeds, which are its natural food: it is obferved to 
hold the cone in one claw, like the Parrot, and to have all the 
actions of that bird when kept in a cage, which I have known 
done for many years*. It is alfo found in North America and 
Groenland, and is faid to make the neft in the higheft parts 
of the jir-trees, faftening it to the branch with the refinous matter 
which exudes from the trees; and that it breeds fo early as 
Fanuary or February, the young being fit to take in March }. 
I never heard of its breeding in England, but know one inftance 
of its being fhot at large in the middle of fummer. I have been 
told that they have done great damage in orchards, by tearing 
the apples to pieces for the fake of the see the only part they 
delight in f. 
* Frifeh obferves, that if this bird is fed on hemp-feed, the red colour 
‘will come the fooner. — It is quite different in the Hou/e Sparrow and Goldfinch, 
as the fame food occafions a blacknefs throughout the whole plumage. 
+ Frifch. 
{ This experiment does not fucceed in a cage, as apples have been put 
in along with the bird, who has fuffered them to remain untouched.—Bar- 
wing. Mife. pe 223. 
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