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FRINGILLA LUDOVICIANA. 
throat : this colour spreads gradually, and the win g s< ! j! 
tail, and soon after the head, blacken, of course presen 111 : 
as they advance in age a great variety of combinat>"'J 
For the description of the beautiful adult malej.J 
shall refer to Wilson, whose description is good, 'jj 
not having stated any particulars about the liabi ts ( ; 
the species, we shall subjoin the little that is kno"j’, 
them. Though long since recorded to be an inhabit J 
of Louisiana, w hence it was first received in Eu r , 1 ': 
recent observations, and the opinion of Wilson, ], L 
rendered this doubtful, and it was believed to ”, 
altogether an arctic bird, averse to the warm clirna tc ,,, 
the Southern States, and hardly ever appearing e ''\, 
in the more temperate. Its recent discovery in 
is, therefore, a very interesting and no less remark 8 :,! I 
fact, and w-e may safely conclude that this bird mig*®^ 
extensively according to season, spending the sum 1 ®' 
in the north, or in the mountains, and breeding 
and in winter retiring southward, or descending ’“j 
the plains ; being, however, by no means numero» f V 
any known district, or at any season, though perk?' 
more frequent on the borders of Lake Ontario, ij 
favourite abode is large forests, where it affects 'j 
densest and most gloomy retreats. The nest is pi®! 5 !) 
among the thick foliage of trees, and is construct*",!, 
twigs outside, and lined with fine grasses within! \\ 
female lays four or five white eggs, spotted with br on | 
This may also be called an « evening grosbeak,” ,0 ! ! | 
also sings during the solemn stillness of night, uttm 1 ' 1 
a clear, mellow, and harmonious note. ° 
We have placed this species in our subgP^J 
Coccothraustes. It is probably because he lab 
under the mistake that all the grosbeaks removed h.® | 
IjOxici bad been placed in Pyrrhula by Temminck, 
Mr Sabine has made it a bullfinch; and in truth > 
bill very much resembles those of that genus, so ^ 
the species is intermediate between the two. * I 
Swainson places it, tog-ether with the blue grosb^ 
Fringilla ( Coccothraustes ) ccerulea , in a new 
which he calls Guiraca, but without as yet character'® 1 e 
