PINE GROSBEAK. 5895 
usual allowance. The third morning I allowed him to 
flutter about me some time before showing any symptom of 
being awake; he no sooner observed that his object was 
effected than he retired to the window, and waited patient- 
ly until I arose. As the spring approached, he used to 
whistle occasionally in the morning, and his notes were ex- 
ceedingly rich and full. About the time, however, when 
the species began to remove to the North, his former 
familiarity entirely disappeared.” Mr. Audubon further 
says, ‘“‘ While in the State of Maine, I observed that these 
birds when travelling fly in silence, and at a considerable 
height above the trees. They alight on the topmost 
branches, so that it is difficult to obtain them, unless one 
has a remarkably good gun. But, on waiting a few 
minutes, you see the flock, usually composed of seven or 
eight individuals, descend from branch to branch, and 
betake themselves to the ground, where they pick up 
gravel, hop towards the nearest pool or streamlet, and 
bathe by dipping their heads, and scattering the water 
over them, until they are quite wet; after which they 
fly to the branches of low bushes, shake themselves with so 
much vigour as to produce a smart rustling sound, and 
arrange their plumage. They then search for food among 
the boughs of the taller trees.” 
In the male bird from which the figure was drawn, the 
beak is dark brown, the lower mandible tinged with dark 
red; the base of the upper mandible and the eyes sur- 
rounded with a narrow band of dusky black: the irides 
hazel ; the whole of the head, cheeks, ear-coverts, and the 
neck behind, vermilion red; the feathers of the back and 
scapulars greyish black, margined with red; those of the 
rump and the upper tail-coverts with broader margins of 
red, producing as they overlay each other a continuous 
