PINE GROSBEAK. 53 
stuck them on. the stick, pulling them on with bill and claws; and so 
served as many as were turned loose, one after another, on the same 
stick.* 7 
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PINE GROSBEAK.— LOXIA ENUCLEATOR. — Fie. 16. 
Loxia enucleator, Linn. Syst. i. p. 299, 3.— Le dur bec, ou gros bee de Canada, 
Buffon, mee 457. Pl. enl. 135, 1. — Edw. 123, 124. — Lath. Syn, iii. p. 111, 5. 
— Peale’s Museum, No. 5652. : : 
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CORYTHUS: ENUCLEAT OR. — Covier.t 
Loxia enucleator, Penn. Arct. Zool. ii. p. 348. — Corythus enucleator, Cuv. Regn. 
Anim. i. p. 391.— Fleem. Br. Zool. p. 16. — Bouvreuil‘ dur bec, Pyrrhula enu- 
cleator, Pinan i. 333. — Pine Grosbeak, Pyrrhula enucleator, Selby, Orn. Ill. i. 
256, pl. 53.— Pyrrhula enucleator, Bonap. Syn. 114. - 
_ Tuts is perhaps one of the gayest plumaged land birds that fre- 
quent the inhospitable regions of the north, whence they are driven, 
as if with reluctance, by the rigors of winter, to visit Canada and 
some of the Northern and Middle States ; returning to Hudson’s Bay 
so early as April. The specimen from which our drawing was taken 
“was shot on a cedar-tree, a few miles to the north of Philadelphia, in 
the month of December; and a faithful resemblance of the original, 
as it then appeared, is exhibited in Fig. 16. A few days afterwards, 
another bird of the same species was killed not far from Gray’s Ferry, 
* Epwarbs, vii. 231. 
t This interesting species seems nowhere of common occurrence; it is very 
seldom seen in collections ; and boxes of skins, either from different parts of Europe, 
or America, can seldom rank the Pine Grosbeak among their numbet; the testimony 
of. all travellers in America, who have attended to nature, correspond in their ac 
. counts ; and one of the latest, Mr. Audubon, has mentioned it to meas of extreme 
scarcity. In this country, they seem to be of equal rarity, though they are gener- 
ally placed in our list, of, British birds without any remark. . Pennant ‘observes, 
ae Zool. ii. 348,) that he has seen them in the forests of Invercanld; and Mr. 
elby says, (Br. Orn. 257,) that, from the testimony of the gamekeepers, whom he 
had an opportunity of speaking with in the Figen they may be'ranked only as 
occasional visitants. I am aware, however, of no instance of their being killed in 
this country. Pennant infers, from those which he saw in the month of August, 
that they breed here. “Such a conclusion,” Mr. Selby justly remarks, “ ought 
scarcely to be inferred from this fact, as a sufficient interval of time had elapsed 
for these individuals to have emigrated from Norway, or other northern countries, 
to Scotland, after incubation, as they are known to breed as early as May in their 
natural haunts.” J have been unable to find any trace whatever of their ever 
breeding in this country ; most of the migrating species breed very early, and those 
that change their station for the sake of*finding a breeding place, commence the 
office of building, &c. immediately on their arrival, a necessary circumstance to 
enable the young to perform their migration before the’ change of season. Cuvier 
has formed his genus Corythus of this individual, which still remains the only one 
that has yet been placed in it ; but I am of opinion, that the Crimson-necked Bullfinch 
(Pyrrhiula frontalis, Say) should stand very near, or with it. Their alliance to the 
true Bullfinches is very great, and Mr. Swainson’s genus, Crithagra, may form 
another near ally. > a. : t 
