PINE GROSBEAK. yg 



guished by being ferruginous on the back and bead ; and 

 having the band of black extending only behind the eye, and 

 of a dirty brown or burnt colour ; the under parts are also 

 something rufous, and the curving lines more strongly marked ; 

 she is rather less than the male, which is different from birds 

 of prey in general, the females of which are usually the larger 

 of the two. 



In the " Arctic Zoology," we are told that this species is 

 frequent in Kussia, but does not extend to Siberia ; yet one 

 was taken within Behring's Straits, on the Asiatic side, in lat. 

 66° ; and the species probably extends over the whole con- 

 tinent of North America from the Western Ocean. Mr Bell, 

 while on his travels through Kussia, had one of these birds 

 given him, which he kept in a room, having fixed up a 

 sharpened stick for him in the wall ; and on turning small 

 birds loose in the room, the butcher bird instantly caught them 

 by the throat in such a manner as soon to suffocate them; and 

 then 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.* 



PINE GBOSBEAK. (Loxia enucleator.) 



PLATE V.— Fig. 2. 



Loxia enucleator, Linn. Syst. i. p. 299, 3. — Le dur bee, ou gros bee de Canada, 

 Buffon, iii. p. 457. PI. ml. 135, l.—Edw. 123, 124.— Lath. Syn. iii. p. Ill, 

 5. — Peale's Museum, No. 5652. 



COR YTHUS ENUCLEA TOR. — Cuvier. t 



Loxia enucleator, Penn. Arct. Zool. ii. p. 348. — Cory thus enucleator, Cuv. Regn. 

 Anim. i. p. 391. — Fleem. Br. Zool. -p. 76. — Bouvreuil dur bee, Pyrrhula enu- 

 cleator, Temm. i. 333. — Pine Grosbeak, Pyrrhula enucleator, Selby Orn. III. 

 i. 256, pi. 53. — Pyrrhula enucleator, Bonap. Sy7i. 114. 



This is perhaps one of the gayest plumaged land birds that 

 frequent the inhospitable regions of the north, whence they 



* Edwards, vii. 231. 



t This interesting species seems nowhere of common occurrence ; it 

 is very seldom seen in collections ; and boxes of skins, either from dif- 



