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PINE GROSBEAK. 



ter, when the weather has been warm. It is some- 

 times called Cherry-finch, from its feeding on that 

 fruit. 



PINE GROSBEAK. 

 (Loxia Enucleator.) 



L. sordide roseo Jusco griseoque varia, linea alarum duplici alba, 



rectricibus totis nigricantibus. 

 Dull rosy Grosbeak, varied with brown and grey, with a double 



white line on the wings ; tail-feathers entirely black. 

 Loxia Enucleator. Lin. Syst. Nat. 1. 299. 3. Lin. Faun. Suec. 



223. — Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 845. — Lath. Ind. Orn. 1. 372. 5. 

 Coccothraustes canadensis. — Bris. 3. 250. 15. t. \2.f. 3. 

 Le Dur-bec, ou Gros-bec de Canada. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 3. 



457.— Buff. PI. Eril. 135. 1. 

 Greatest Bulfinch. Edwards. 123. male. 124. female. 

 Pine Grosbeak. Pen. Brit. Zool. 114. 49. 2. — Pen. Arct. Zool. 



2. 209. — Letvin. Brit. Birds. 2. 68.— Lath. Gen. Syn. 7. 111. 



5.— Lath. Syn. Sup. 148. — Mont. Brit. Birds. 1. — Don. Brit. 



Birds. 1. 1/.— Bewick. Brit. Birds. 1. 135. 



The Pine 'Grosbeak is rather longer than the 

 Hawfinch ; being almost nine inches in length : 

 beak very stout at the base, hooked at the tip, 

 and dusky : head, neck, breast, and rump, rose- 

 coloured crimson ; back, and lesser wing-coverts, 

 black ; each feather edged with reddish brown ; 

 greater wing-coverts tipped with white, forming 

 two bars of that colour on the wing : quills black, 

 with pale edges ; secondaries the same, but edged 

 with white : belly and vent straw-coloured : tail 

 similar in markings to the quills, and somewhat 



