PINE GROSBEAK. 
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band of black extending only behind the eye, and of a dirty 
brown or burnt colour ; the under parts are also something 
rufous, and the curving lines more strongly marked ; she is 
rather less than the male, which is different from birds of 
prey in general, the females of which are usually the larger of 
the two. 
In the Arctic Zoology , we are told that this species is 
frequent in Russia, but does not extend to Siberia ; yet one 
was taken within Behring’s Straits, on the Asiatic side, in 
lat. 66°; and the species probably extends over the whole 
continent of North America, from the Western Ocean. Mr Bell, 
while on his travels through Russia, had one of these birds 
given him, which he kept in a room, having fixed up a 
sharpened stick for him in the wall ; and on turning small 
birds loose in the room, the Butcher Bird instantly caught them 
by the throat in such a manner as soon to suffocate them ; and 
then stuck them on the stick, pulling them on with bill and 
claws ; and so served as many as were turned loose, one after 
another, on the same stick.* 
PINE GROSBEAK — LOXIA ENUCLEATOR— Plate V. Fig. 2. 
Loxia enucleator, Linn. Syst. i. p. 299,3. — Le dur bee, ou gros bee de Canada, 
JBuffon, iii. p. 457. PI. enl. 135, 1. — Edw. 123, 124. — Lath. Syn. iii. p. 111,5. 
— Peak's Museum , No. 5652. 
CORYTHUS ENUCLEATOR. — Cuvier, f 
Loxia enucleator, Penn. Arct. Zool. ii. p. 348. — Corythus enucleator, Cuv. Regn. 
Anim.u p. 391. — Fleem. Br. Zool. p. 76. — Bouvreuil dur bee, Pyrrbula enu- 
cleator, Temm. i. 333 Pine Grosbeak, Pyrrhula enucleator, Selby Orn. III. i. 
256. pi. 53. — Pyrrhula enucleator. Bonap. Syn. 114. 
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 
* Edwards, vii. 231. 
f This interesting species seems no where of common occurrence ; it is 
very seldom seen in collections ; and boxes of skins, either from different parts 
