SPECIES 4. LOXM ENUCLE^TOR. 
PINE GROSBEAK. 
[Plate V. — Fig. 2,] 
Loxia Enuclmtor, Linn. Syst. i,p. 299, 3. — Le Rur-bec, ou Gros- 
bec de Canada, Buffon, iii,p. 457. PI. Enl. 135, 1. — Edw. 123, 
124. — Lath. Syn. n\,p. Ill, 5. — Peale’s Museum, JV’o. 5d52. 
This 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 rigours 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 appeared, is ex- 
hibited 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 sel- 
dom 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 Hudson’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 ob- 
serveSj 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. LXII, p. 402. 
