Rocky Mountain Pine-Grosbeak 327 
entirely of rootlets woven together, and contained four 
eggs which were slightly incubated; the eggs were dull 
green spotted with brown, and closely resembled those 
of the Red-winged Blackbird. 
Smith (08) states that H. S. Reed found a brood of 
four or five young birds just out of the nest on 
July 22nd, 1898, in California Park in the Elk Head 
Mountains, Routt co., so that it probably breeds not 
uncommonly in the mountain parks. 
Genus PINICOLA, 
Large Finches—wing over 4-0—with a broad, stout and short bill, 
the culmen strongly down-curved and hooked at the tip, and less than 
the length of the tarsus ; nostrils more or less concealed by forwardly 
growing bristles ; wing long and pointed, difference between primaries 
and secondaries less than twice the length of the tarsus ; tail moderate, 
slightly emarginate, about -75 length of wing ; tarsus shorter than the 
middle toe and claw; plumage plain grey with a wash of red or yellow. 
The Pine-Grosbeaks are all included under one species, spread over 
the northern parts of the Old and New Worlds. A number of sub- 
specific races have been recognized by recent authors, and one of these 
is found at higher elevations in Colorado. 
Rocky Mountain Pine-Grosbeak. 
Pinicola enucleator montana. 
A.O.U. Checklist no 515a—Colorado Records—Ridgway 73, p. 181; 
Trippe 74, p. 105; Drew 81, p. 89; 85, p. 15; Stone 82, p. 191; Mor- 
rison 88, p. 73; 89, p. 149; Kellogg 90, p. 88; McGregor 97, p. 38; 
Cooke 97, pp. 96, 212; Henderson 03, p. 236; 09, p. 235; Rockwell 
08, p. 170. 
Description.—Male—General colour above and below ashy-grey 
becoming dusky or blackish on the wings and tail, most of the wing- 
feathers margined with white ; the greater part of the body-feathers, 
especially on the head, rump and breast, overlaid with bright carmine- 
red ; bill dull black to horn-brown; legs black. Length 8-25; wing 
4-60; tail 3-60; culmen -60; tarsus -60. 
The female has no red, but the crown and sides of the head are bright 
golden-yellow, and there is a touch of the same colour on the upper 
tail-coverts. Young males usually resemble the females, but there 
is a good deal of abnormality about the plumage of this species ; adult 
