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feathers; lower back and rump uniform rosy; wings dark 
brown, with rosy margins to the feathers, broader on the inner 
secondaries ; crown uniform rosy or pale crimson, as also the 
under surface of the body, which is ashy whitish on the lower 
abdomen and under tail-coverts. Total length, 8-5 inches ; 
culmen, 0-65 ; wing, 415 ; tail, 3-25; tarsus, o’86. 
Adnit Female. — Lacks the rosy colour of the male, the lower 
back being ashy like the rest of the back, with dusky centres 
to the feathers ; quills and tail-feathers edged with yellowish 
white or olive; under surface of body ashy grey, washed with 
golden olive on the throat and breast ; abdomen and under 
tail-coverts pale ashy. Total length, 8 inches ; wing, 4-0. 
Eange in Great Britain. — Accidental only ; the numerous re- 
cords of its capture in this country resting in nearly every 
case on unsatisfactory evidence. 
Range outside the British Islands. — An inhabitant of the pine- 
woods of Northern Europe, across Northern Asia and North 
America, in the vicinity of the Arctic Circle. In Central 
Europe it has occurred only as an irregular wanderer. 
Habits. — -According to Mr. Seebohm, the Pine-Finch goes 
about in flocks during the winter, but disperses through the 
pine-woods during the nesting season. The call-note is some- 
thing like that of the Bullfinch. In disposition it is some- 
what shy and frequents the tops of the trees, affecting the 
woods by the sides of streams. Its food consists of “buds of 
various forest-trees, the seeds of pine- and fir-cones, and the 
berries of various shrubs, especially those of the southern- 
wood.” 
Nest. — “Made on the same model as those of the Hawfinch 
and Bullfinch, but of coarser materials. The outside is a 
framework of slender fir-twigs, and the inside, which projects 
above the outside, is composed of roots, fine grass, and a 
lichen which grows on the branches of the trees, and which 
might easily be mistaken for hair.” ( Seebohm .) 
Eggs. — Three to four in number. Something like large Bull- 
finch’s eggs in appearance, hut much deeper blue, with plentiful 
underlying spots of purplish grey, and overlying spots of brown, 
with darker blotches and spots of purplish brown, collecting 
