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PINE GROSBEAK. 
receive the blue color until the ensuing spring ; and till then very much 
resemble the female. 
Latham makes two varieties of this species ; the first wholly blue, 
except a black spot between the bill and eye ; this bir^l inhabits Brazil, 
and is figured by Brisson, Orn. III., 321, No. 6, pi. 17, fig. 2. The 
other is also generally of a fine deep blue, except the quills, tail and 
legs, which are black ; this is Edwards' "Blue Grosbeak from Angola," 
pi. 125 ; which Dr. Latham suspects to have been brought from some 
of the Brazilian settlements, and considers both as mere varieties of the 
first. I am sorry I cannot at present clear up this matter, but shall 
take some farther notice of it hereafter. 
Species IV. LOXIA ENUCLEA TOE. 
PINE GROSBEAK. 
[Plate V. Fig. 2.] 
Loxia Enucleator, Linn. Syst. i., p. 209, 3. — Le Dur-bee, on Gros-bec de Canada. 
Buffon*, in., p. 457. PI. Enl. 135, 1. — Edw. 123, 124. — Lath. Syn. in., p. 
Ill, 5. 
Tins is perhaps one of the gayest plumaged land birds that frequent 
the inhospitable regions of the north, whence they are driven, as if with 
reluctance, by the rigors of winter, to visit Canada, and some of the 
Northern and Middle States ; returning to Hudson's Bay so early as 
April. The specimen from which our drawing was taken, was shot on 
a cedar tree, a few miles to the north of Philadelphia, in the month of 
December ; and a faithful resemblance of the original, as it then ap- 
peared, is exhibited in the plate. A few days afterwards, another bird 
of the same species was killed not far from Gray's Ferry, four miles 
south of Philadelphia, which proved to be a female. In this part of the 
state of Pennsylvania, they are rare birds, and seldom seen. As they 
do not, to my knowledge, breed in any part of this state, I am unable, 
from personal observation, to speak of their manners or musical talents. 
Pennant says, they sing on their first arrival in the country round Hud- 
son's Bay, but soon become silent ; make their nest on trees, at a 
small height from the ground, with sticks, and line it with feathers. 
The female lays four white eggs, which are hatched in June. Foster 
observes, that they visit Hudson's Bay only in May, on their way to 
the north ; and are not observed to return in the autumn ; and that 
their food consists of birch-willow buds, and others of the same 
nature.* 
* Phil. Trans. LXIL, p. 402. 
