FRINGILLINA. 199 
THE PINE-GROSBEAK. 
PyRRHULA ENUCLEATOR (Linnzus). 
The Pine Grosbeak is at the utmost a very rare visitor to the 
British Islands, and although about forty so-called ‘occurrences’ 
are on record, critical examination by Mr. J. H. Gumey (Zool. 
1877, pp. 242-250 and 1890 pp. 125-129), and Professor Newton 
(4th Ed. Yarrell’s B. B.), has disposed of many as unworthy of belief, 
although the identification of the specimens still existing is correct. 
Live birds have often been brought to England, and, according to 
Dr. A. G. Butler, few species are more likely to be turned out of 
aviaries, on account of their voracity and bad habits; while dead 
specimens have frequently been sent over frozen, a notable consign- 
ment being in March 1889. Where so much deception is known to 
have been practised, suspicion is inevitable, and may, perhaps, be 
carried too far. Mr. J. Whitaker has a male in rosy plumage shot 
on October 30th 1890, in Nottinghamshire (Zool. 1890, p. 464); 
while a female, recorded by Mr. J. H. Gurney (Zool. 1893, p. 150), 
was captured alive near Yarmouth on September 3rd 1892, moulted 
in October, and was alive up to January 24th 1893. In Heligoland 
an adult male was obtained on October 20th 1890. 
