PINE GROSBEAK, 283 
again early in April, feeding on the cherry blossoms as 
soon as they appear. 
This bird measures six inches and a quarter in length, 
and ten inches in extent; the hill was horn coloured; 
upper parts of the plumage, brown olive, strongly 
tinged with yellow, particularly on the rump, where it 
was brownish yellow ; from above the eye, backwards, 
passed a streak of white, and another more irregular 
one from the lower mandible ; feathers of the crown, 
narrow, rather long, and generally erected, but not so 
as to form a crest ; nostrils and base of the bill, covered 
with reflected brownish hairs ; eye, dark hazel ; wings 
and tail, dark blackish brown, edged with olive ; first 
and second row of coverts, tipt with pale yellow ; chin, 
white ; breast, pale cream, marked with pointed spots 
of deep olive brown ; belly and vent, white ; legs, 
brown. This bird, with several others marked nearly 
in the same manner, was shot, April 25, while engaged 
in eating the buds from the beech tree, 
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GENUS XXXIV. — PYRRHULA, Brisson, 
184. PYRRHULA ENUCLEATOR, TEM ,— LOXI A ENUCLEATOR, WILS. 
PINE GROSBEAK. 
WILSON, PLATE V, FIG. II. YOUNG MALE. — EDINBURGH COLLEGE MUSEUM. 
This is perhaps one of the gayest land birds that 
frequent the inhospitable regions of the north, from 
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 
description was taken was shot on a cedar tree, a few 
miles to the north of Philadelphia, in the month of 
December. A few days afterwards, another bird of the 
same species was killed not far from Gray’s Ferry, four 
miles south from Philadelphia, which proved to be a 
female. In this part of the State of Pennsylvania, 
they are rare birds, and seldom seen. As they do not. 
