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PINE GROSBEAK. CrassII. 
I imagine they breed there, for I faw them Auguft 
sth. They feed on the feeds of the pine. Lin- 
neus fays, they fing in the night. 
It is near twice the fize of the bulfinch. The 
bill ftrong, dufky, forked at the end; lefs thick 
than that of the common bulfinch: head, back, 
neck, and breaft of a rich crimfon: the bottoms 
of the feathers afh-color; the middle of thofe on 
the back and head black : the lower belly and vent 
afh-color: the leffer coverts of the wings dufky, 
edged with orange; the next with a broad ftripe 
of white: the loweft order of greater coverts with 
another; exterior edges of the fame color: the 
quil-feathers and tail dudky; their exterior edges 
of a dirty white: legs black: length nine inches 
and a half. There feems an agreement in colors, 
as well as food, between this fpecies and the 
crofs-bill; one that I faw in Scotland, and believe 
to be the female, was (like the female crofs-bill) 
of a dirty green; the tail and quil-feathers duiky. 
