PLA Text 
Gros-bec de Canada, Brif: Orn. iii. p. 250. N° 15. ph 12. fo 3— 
Plseg!. 125.1. 
Le Dur-bec, Buf. Ozs. iil. p. 457. 
Tallbit. Natt-waka. Faun. Suec. 
Coccothrauftes Canadenfis. Bri/. 
The male Pine Grofbeak is certainly one of the moft beautiful of 
the feathered tribe that inhabit either of the fifter countries of Great 
Britain. Yt meafures nine inches from the tip of the bill to the end 
of the tail, its weight two ounces; the general colour of its plu- 
mage is rofe-coloured crimfon, and black, elegantly marked with white 
on the edges of the feathers: the bill, which is remarkably ftout, and 
curved at the tip, is well adapted for the purpofe of dividing the 
cones of the pines to obtain the feeds. 
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The female has not the beautiful appearance of the male; the 
principal colour of her plumage is dirty green, inclining to brown, 
the crown of the head varied only with a few reddifh or yellowifh 
teints, and fome feathers of the fame colour flightly difperfed over 
the back, breaft, and belly. 
In England this {pecies is found only in the moft northern parts, or is 
probably entirely confined to Scotland; like the Crofsbill it inhabits the 
pine forefts in the Highlands; Pennant fufpects that they breed there, 
as he has obferved them flying above the great pine forefts of Inver 
éauld, Aberdcenfoire, in the month of Auguit, 
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