914 Ebpoet of State Geologist. 



the trees and also pick it off the ground. When on the ground feed- 

 ing, they are quite silent. They move by hopping, holding them- 

 selves like robins, and turn over the leaves with great dexterity, 

 picking up the seeds from under them. The males have a loud call 

 note, a sharp, metallic cry like the note of a trumpet, which they utter 

 frequently when excited. The females chatter like Bohemian Wax- 

 wings {Ampelis garrulus). Their song towards spring is a rambling, 

 jerky warble, beginning low, suddenly increasing in power, and as 

 suddenly ceasing, as though the singer were out of breath. They are 

 usually found in flocks of six to twelve individuals. Sometimes, how- 

 ever, there are twenty or thirty in a flock. It is but rarely that full 

 plumaged males will be found among them. During the more severe 

 part of the winter, they are usually tame and unsuspicious; this some- 

 times continues through their stay, but they often become shy before 

 they leave. Sometimes, when one is shot, all will leave; usually, how- 

 ever, they will remain until a number are killed before taking flight. 

 Their flight through the woods is very swift, reminding one, by the 

 dexterity with which they avoid branches, of a Pigeon; when in the 

 open, it is more Hke that of a Blackbird (See Butler, Some Notes 

 Concerning the Evening Grosbeak, The Auk, Vol. IX., pp. 238, 247. 

 Further notes on the Evening Grosbeak, The Auk, Vol. X., April, 

 1893, pp. 155-157; also Proceedings of the Ornithological sub-section 

 of the Biological Section of the Canadian Institute for 1890-91.). 



119. Gbncs PINICOLA Vieillot. 



197. (515). Pinicola enucleator (Linn.). 



Pine Grosbeak. 



Adult Male. — Carmine; paler ashy on the belly; darker and streaked 

 with dusky on the back; wings and tail, dusky, the former much 

 edged with white and with two white bars. Adult Female. — ^Ashy; 

 paler below; head, back and lower parts, brownish, shaded with olive; 

 rump, olive-yellow; wings, similar to those of male. Immature. — 

 Similar to female, but more ashy. 



Length, 8.25-9.00; wing, 4.50-5.00; tail, 3.70-4.45. 



Bange. — ^Northern parts of Northern Hemisphere. In America, 

 breeding from Maine, Quebec and mountains of Colorado northward. 

 In winter, irregularly into northern United States, rarely as fax as 

 northern Illinois, northern Indiana, Pennsylvania, New York and 

 southern New England. 



Nest, in coniferous trees; of twigs and rootlets, lined with finer ma- 

 terials. Eggs, "usually 4; pale greenish-blue, spotted and blotched 

 with dark brown surface markings, and lilac shell spots; 1.05 by .74." 



