No. V.J 



ZOOLOGY. 



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conspicuously over the whole lower part of the body, the breast being prettily dashed 

 with touches of red. It is a very small species, corresponding in size, and resem- 

 bling in manners, the Yellow Wren (S. Trochilus,) of Europe. Though found in the 

 northern parts of America in the summer, it is said not to breed there ; this, how- 

 ever, seems very questionable, for all the regular migrants at that season which 

 proceed northwards, probably rear their brood during the interval after such move- 

 ment. Wilson has called the bird S. Citrinella, Blue-eyed Yellow Warbler, and has 

 very properly corrected an error of Buffon, who described a different species as the 

 female. 



Emberiza Nivalis. Snow Bunting. 



Two specimens in their winter plumage were received. Snow buntings are found 

 in all places near the Arctic Circle, proceeding towards the most northern lands with 

 the first appearance of spring in those dreary regions, and leaving them only when 

 no longer habitable to any of the feathered race. 



Pyrrhula Enucleator. Pine Grosbeak. 



A single specimen of a young bird was received. It appears from Hearne, that this 

 species is well known in Hudson's Bay. It is also described by Foster, and by 

 Ornithological writers generally, as an inhabitant of the Arctic countries where- 

 soever it can find trees and shrubs, on the buds of which it subsists. It does not 

 go far south, and is noticed by Wilson as rare in Pennsylvania. The Pine Gros- 

 beak, as well as two species of Cross-bills, all natives of cold countries, have much red 

 in their plumage when young, which turns to orange as they advance in age ; such 

 alteration from bright to less splendid plumage, in the progress from youth to maturity, 

 is contrary to the usual course of nature in birds. M. Temminck has transferred the 

 Pine and other Grosbeaks to his Genus Pyrrhula, confining Loxia to the Cross-bills. 



Pyrrhula Ludoviciana. Red-breasted Grosbeak. 



Wilson, who describes this bird under the name of Loxia Rosea, Rose-breasted 

 Grosbeak, does not trace it into the southern states ; it is found in the fall of the year 

 in New-York and New England, and from the specimen before us appears to migrate 

 into the more northern parts where it probably breeds, retiring towards Louisiana 

 for the winter. It is the Rose-gorge and the Gros-bec de la Louisiane of Buffon, and 

 has been described by Latham and Pennant, as well as by Gmelin, as one species 

 under the names of Loxia Ludoviciana or Red-breasted Grosbeak, and as another spe- 

 cies which they have called Fringilla Punicea or Red-breasted Finch. The specimen 

 received is that of a young male, the back of which is mottled with black, ash-colour, 

 and some little white ; the crimson feathers of the breast extend nearly to the lower 



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