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Genus PINICOLA. 



Zoxia apud Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. i. p. 299 (1766). 

 Pinicola, Vieillot, Ois. d'Amer. Sept. i. p. 4 (1807). 

 Fringilla apud Meyer, Vog. Livl. p. 74 (1815). 

 Strobilophaga apud Vieillot, Analyse, p. 29 (1816). 

 Corythus apud Cuvier, Regne Anim. i. p. 391 (1817). 

 Pyrrhula apud Temminck, Man. d'Orn. i. p. 333 (1820). 

 Coccothraustes apud Bonaparte, Consp. Gen. Av. i. p. 528 (1850). 

 Enucleator apud C. L. Brehm, Vogelfang, p. 89 (1855). 



Closely allied on the one hand to Loxia, and on the other to Pyrrhula and Carpodacm, this 

 genus cannot well be placed elsewhere than between the two former genera. By some authors, 

 amongst whom I may mention Professor Newton, it is included in the genus Pyrrhula ; but it 

 appears to me well worthy of generic rank. 



Only one species belongs to this genus, Pinicola enucleator, the range and habits of which 

 are given in the following article. This species, which is consequently the type of the genus, 

 has the bill like Pyrrhula, but longer, the upper mandible acute, declinate ; nostrils basal, 

 round, concealed by recurved bristly feathers; wings moderately long, the first quill attenuate, 

 scarcely visible, the third or fourth the longest ; tail rather long, rather deeply forked ; tarsus 

 short, compressed, with four large and three inferior scutellse ; toes stout ; claws moderately long, 

 curved, acute, laterally grooved ; plumage soft and full. 



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