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to iny knowledge, bi-eed in any part of this State, I 
unable, from personal observation, to speak of tbe*'^ 
manners or musical talents. Mr Pennant says thef 
sing on their first arrival in the country round HuJ' 
son s Bay, but soon become silent ; make their nest ui* 
trees, at a small height from the ground, n-ith stick*’ j 
and line it with feathers. The female lays four wb’^^ 
eggs, which are hatched in .Inue. Forster obserVf’ ' 
that they visit Hudson’s Bay only in May, in thck 
way to the north; and are not observed to return 
the autumn; and that their food consists of birck' 
willow buds, and others of the same nature.* 
The pine grosbeak measures nine inches in leugtk’ 
and fourteen inches in extent; the head, neck, brc#*; 
and rump, are of a rich crimson, palest on the breas^j 
the feathers on the middle of the back are centc^^ 
with arrow-shaped spots of black, and skirted 
crimson, which gives the plumage a considerable flu*® 
of red there; those on the shoulders are of a deep slu*® 
colour, partially skirted with red, and light ash. T®'’ 
greater wing-coverts and next superior row are broafl^/ 
tipt with white, and slightly tinged with reddish ; wiUr* 
and tail, black, edged with light brown; tail, cousiflu'^ 
ably forked ; lon er part of the belly, ash colour ; Yd'* 
feathers, skirted with white, and streaked with black’ 
legs, glossy black ; bill, a brownish horn colour, veil 
tliick, short, and hooked at the point ; the upper mp**’ 
dible overhanging the lower considerably, approachiUc 
in its form to that of the parrot; base of the bill, cover’'" 
with recumbent bairs of a dark brown colour. T*'" 
whole plumage, near the roots, as in most other bin)*’ 
IS or a deop bluish ash colour. The female haH 
inch shorter, and answered nearly to the above 
criptiou ; only, those parts that in the male were 
son, were in her of a dirty yellowish colour. 
female, according to Forster, referred to above? 
those jiarts which in the male are red, more 
orange tint; and he censures Edwards for havi^^ 
Philosophical Trayisactlons, Ixii, p, 402 . 
