128 THE CHICAGO ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. 



Genus PINICOLA Vieillot, 1807. 



Pinicola enucleator canadensis (Cabanis). Canadian Fine Grosbeak. 



Loxia enucleator Linn^us, S. N., ed. 12, I, 1766, 299, part (neo 



1858). 

 Pyrrkula enucleator Bonapaete, Syn. 1828, 119. 

 Pinicola canadensis Cabanis, Mus. Hein., I, Aug., 1851, 167. 

 Pinicola enucleator CouES, Key N. Amer. Birds, 1872, 127, (part). 

 Pinicola enucleator B. canadensis Ridgwat, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, 



April, 1878, 66. 



The Canadian Pine Grosbeak is a very rare and irregular 

 winter visitant. The only records that I have for its occurrence 

 during, recent years within our limits are the following. In Jan- 

 uary, 1887, I took a specimen at River Forest. In December, 

 1885, Mr. John F. Ferry took a number of specimens from a 

 flock at Lake Forest. It seems to have been more common 

 many years ago. Mr. E. W. Nelson says : "Formerly common ; 

 now a rare winter visitant." In his "Birds of Indiana" Mr. 

 Amos W. Butler states that Mr. George L. Toppan "once noted 

 it in Lake County, Indiana, and thinks it was in the winter of 

 1884-1885." 



Its range includes the coniferous forests of the northern por- 

 tions of North America and the breeding range extends from 

 northern New England and Minnesota, and in the Rocky Moun- 

 tains in Colorado northward nearly to the limit of trees. In the 

 winter it migrates southward into the United States especially 

 in the northeastern portion. 



Genus CARPODACUS Kaup, 1829. 



Carpodacus purpureus (Gmelin). Purple Finch. 



Fringilla purpurea Gmelin, S. N., I, ii, 1788, 923. 

 Carpodacus purpureus Gray, Gen. B., II, 1844, 384. 

 Popular synonyms : Pueple Linnet. Pueple Geosbeak. Rost 

 Linnet. Roseate Geosbeak oe Finch. Steawbeeet Bibd. 



The Purple Finch is an irregular migrant and a not uncom- 

 mon winter resident. It arrives in the fall in September and 

 remains until May. I have no records of its breeding within 

 our limits. That it has nested in northern Illinois, however, is 

 shown by the following records. Mr. E. W. Nelson says:* 

 "Common winter resident; a few breed." Professor W. W. 

 Cooke statesf that its eggs have been taken at Polo, Ogle County, 



*Birds of Northeastern Illinois, Bull, of the Essex Institute, Vol. Vlll, 1876, 105. 

 tBird Migration in the Mississippi Valley, p. 179. 



