ROSE-BREASTED GROSBEAK. 
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are of a dark olive-brown, blending and becoming paler as they ap- 
proach the other tints. The back, rump, sides, and below, with the 
under wing and tail-coverts yellow. Legs and feet flesh-color. — 
The sexes nearly alike. 
ROSE-BREASTED GROSBEAK. 
( Fringilla ludomciana , Bonap. Loxia rosea (ludoviciana), Wilson, 
ii. p. 135. pi. 17. fig. 2. [male.] and Bonap. Am. Orn. ii. p. 14. 
fig. 2. [female.] Phil. Museum, No. 5806, 5807.) 
Sp. Charact. — Black ; breast and inferior wing-coverts rosaceous ; 
belly, band on the wing, base of the primaries, and 3 outer tail- 
feathers partly white ; bill whitish. — Female and young , varied 
with pale flaxen, dark-olive, and whitish; no rose-color, and less 
white on the wings. 
The history of this splendid songster is very obscure, 
the species being rare and accidental in the Atlantic 
States. The remote Northwestern Territories of the 
Union, Canada, and the cool regions towards the Rocky 
Mountains, appear to be the general residence of the 
Rose-breasted Grosbeak. Mr. Say met with it in the 
spring, on the banks of the lower part of the Missouri, 
and at Pembino on the 5th of August in the 49th degree 
of latitude. The enterprising Dr. Richardson, who ac- 
companied Captain Franklin into the dreary northern re- 
gions of Canada, also observed it in the latitude of 53°. 
It has likewise been seen in Mexico. These are, no 
doubt, its proper natal regions, and the course of its mi- 
grations, from which it only ventures accidentally in se- 
vere winters, and is then transiently seen in pairs east of 
the Atlantic mountains, which constitute the general 
boundary of its rauge. They are thus seen occasionally in 
the vicinity of Philadelphia, in the state of New York, par- 
ticularly along the borders of Lake Ontario, and in Con- 
necticut, but rarely if ever in this part of New England. 
Pennant speaks of its arrival in the state of New York in 
