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NORTHERN ZOOLOGY. 



agree with those of the male, without being tinged, as in P. maculata, with ferruginous- 

 brown. 



Dimensions. 





Inch. 



Lin. 





Inch. 



Lin. 





Inch. 



Lin 



ngth, total 



. 8 



9 



Length of bill from rictus 



. 



8 



Length of middle nail 



. 



4 



,, of tail 



4 







,, of tarsus 



1 



i 



„ of hind toe 



. 



5 



,, of folded wing 



. 3 



C 



„ of middle toe . 



. 



9 



,, of its nail . 







6 



„ of bill above 







6* 















[76.] 1. Pyrrhula (Corythus) enucleator. (Cuvier.) Pine Bullfinch. 



Sub-family, Pyrrhulinse, Swains. Genus, Pyrrhula, Auct. Sub-genus, (?) Corythus, Cuvier. 



The Greatest Bullfinch. Edwards, pi. 123, young male ; pi. 124, female. 



Loxia enucleator. Forster, Phil. Trans., lxii., p. 402, No. 24. 



Pine Grosbeak. Penn. Arct. Zool., ii., p. 348, No. 209. Wils., i., p. 80, pi. 5, f. 2. 



Pyrrhula enucleator. Temm. i., p. 333. Sabine, Frankl. Journ., p. 675. Bonap. Syn., 



p. 115, No. 193. 

 Wuskuneethow. Cree Indians. 



Plate liii. Female. 



The Pine Bullfinch, the largest species of its family yet discovered, inhabits 

 the northern parts of both continents ; but, as it leads a quiet, retired life in the 

 gloomiest recesses of the pine-forests, it is seldom seen. It was not observed 

 by the Expedition higher than the sixtieth parallel. Pennant states it to be 

 merely a summer visitor of Hudson's Bay ; but this is a mistake, for Mr. Drage, 

 Clerk of the California, observed it at York Fort on the 25th of January, 1747 ; 

 and Mr. Isham also informed Edwards that it continues there all the winter. 

 It builds its nest on the lower branches of a tree, and feeds chiefly upon the seeds 

 of the white-spruce. — R. 



DESCRIPTION 



Of a male, killed on the Saskatchewan in winter. 



Colour. — General tint of the head, neck, and body, red, the base of the plumage bluish- 

 grey, each feather above marked near the tip with a darker spot, which is abruptly bordered 

 with light and dull crimson, rather brighter on the rump and upper tail covers. General 

 colour of the wings and tail dark cinereous or grey-brown : wing covers forming two white 

 bands ; tertials edged with white ; lesser covers and edges of the quills strongly tinged with 

 crimson ; tail feathers the same. Under plumage more red than the upper ; except the 

 middle of the body, belly, vent, and under tail covers, which are bluish-grey. Bill blackish- 

 brown, beneath paler. Legs black. 



Form. — The bill is strong, and as thick at the base as the head. The upper mandible is 



