PASSERINJE. CORYTHUS. 207 
stomach a strong gizzard ; intestine of moderate length and 
width ; coeca very small. Nostrils round, concealed by re- 
versed feathers. Eyes rather small. Head: large, roundish- 
ovate ; neck short ; body moderately stout. Tarsus short, 
compressed, with seven scutella ; toes stout ; claws long, mo- 
derately arched, compressed, acute. Plumage soft and full ; 
wings of moderate length, the outer three quills nearly equal ; 
tail rather long, deeply emarginate. 
This genus is closely allied to Pyrrhula, and perhaps still 
more intimately to Loxia, although the bill has a very dif- 
ferent aspect. 
132. CoRYTHus Enucleator. Red Pinefinch. 
Male with the head, neck, and fore part of the breast and 
rump bright red, or carmine tinged with vermilion, the back 
greyish-brown, the feathers edged with red ; the wings dusky, 
with two white bars ; the lower parts light grey. Female with 
the head yellowish-brown, the rump brownish -yellow, the rest 
of the plumage grey, the wings as in the male. Young like 
the female. 
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ivid-ie, 02J . . > ‘±4? YV> -T emaio, O4. 
The habits of this species are similar to those of the Cross.- 
bills. It occurs in the northern parts of both Continents, and 
feeds on the seeds of pines, and various other plants. Pen- 
nant mentions having met with it early in August in the pine 
forest of Invercauld in Aberdeenshire® 
Pine Bullfinch. Pine Grosbeak. 
Loxia Enucleator, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. 299. — Pyrrhula Enu- 
cleator, Temm. Man. d’Ornith. i. 333. — Pyrrhula Enucleator, 
Pine Bullfinch, MacGillivray, Brit. Birds, i. 411. 
GENUS LXVII. LOXIA. CROSSBILL. 
Bill of moderate length, very strong, subpentagonal and 
rather higher than broad at the base, tapering, compressed 
toward the end, with the tip laterally deflected and curved 
in opposite directions ; upper mandible larger, with its dorsal 
line convex, the ridge rather narrow, the tip decurved, com- 
pressed, worn beneath to a thin edge, and slightly bent to 
one side ; lower mandible with the angle very short and 
broad, the dorsal line convex, the tip compressed, acute, and 
deflected. Mouth rather narrow ; tongue slender, emarginate 
