Genus PINICOLA Vieillot. 

 PINICOLA ENITCLEATOK (Lixx.). 



211. Pine Grosbeak, (515) 



Malt : — Carmine I'ed, paler or whitish on the bell}", darker and streaked 

 with dusky on the back ; wings and tail dusky, much edged with white, the 

 former with two white bars. Feinalt : — Ashy-gray, palei- lielow, marked with 

 brownish-yellow on the head and rump. Length, S-9 ; wing, ik » tail, 4. 



Hab. — Northern portions of the northern hemisphere, Ijreeding far north, in 

 winter, south, in North America, irregularly to the Northern United States. 

 South in the Rocky Mountains to Colorado, and in the Sierra Nevada to 

 California. 



Nest, in a bush, four feet from the giound, composetl entirely of coarse 

 ^reen moss. 



Eggs, foui', slate color, tingeil with green, spotted and clouded with brown 

 and purple. 



In Southern Ontario the Pine Grosbeak is an irregular winter 

 visitor, sometimes appearing in large flocks and again being entireljf 

 absent for .several years in succession. Duiing the winter of 1882-83, 

 and also of 1883-84, they were quite common, and were observed 

 "throughout the countrj', wherever their favorite red cedar or moun- 

 tain ash berries were to be found, but since that time not one has 

 been seen. They are fine, robust birds of a most sociable, gentle 

 ■disposition. I have often watched them feeding in flocks, sometimes 



