Auk, XIII, April, 1890, p . / 7 6 
Abnormal Plumage of a Pine Grosbeak. — -On the 30th of December, 
1895,1 took a specimen of the female Pine Grosbeak ( Pinicola enucleator) 
at Shelburne, N. II. On looking the bird over carefully I noticed an un- 
broken ring of feathers, like those of the upper back in color and texture, 
extending over the left shoulder, where the band measures .75 of an inch 
in width, and continuing across the breast and terminating on the right 
shoulder, its width having decreased .20 of an inch. The band is com- 
posed of thirty-three feathers, that is, beginning to count as soon as they 
are out of their normal position on the back, and are of much deeper slate 
color than those above or below them ; the centre of each feather is tinged 
with crome yellow and they are longer than the surrounding ones, stand- 
ing out almost like a ruff. The flesh of the neck was perfectly normal 
and the bird apparently had never been injured. I have the specimen 
now in mv collection. — Reginald IIebek Howe, Jr., Longtvood, Mass. 
Auk, XIII, July, 1890, 
Correction. — In the Auk, Vol. XIII, No. 2, for April, page 176, under 
‘ Abnormal Plumage in a Pine Grosbeak,’ “ its width having decreased .20 
of an inch ” should read “ its width having decreased to .20 of an inch.” 
On page 178, the paragraph on the Winter Wren, under ‘Three Winter 
Notes from Longwood, Massachusetts,’ “and on the 25th shot, I think, 
the same bird ” should read “ and on the 25th of December shot, I think 
the same bird.” — Reginald IIeber Howe, Jr., Longwood , Mass. 
