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PINE GKOSSBEAK. 
PINE BULLFINCH. COMMON HAWFINCH. 
Loxia enucleatory 
Corythus enucleator, 
Pyrrhula enucleator , 
Loxia. Loxos — Curved—oblique. 
kernel 
Pennant. Montagu. 
Fleming. 
Selby. Jenyns. 
Enucleator—One, that takes out the 
a thing. 
So long ago, at the least, as the time of Horace, it would 
seem to have been considered as a barbarism to compound 
words of two different languages; ‘Canusini more bilinguis;’ 
and whereas the name of Grosbeak, heretofore applied to the 
bird before us, has been an instance of the fault in question, 
it will be seen that I have changed it for one which has 
the merit of being English in both its component parts alike. 
The Pine Grossbeak is a native of the northern regions of 
Europe and America, but is found in the former, not only in 
Siberia, Russia, Norway, Sweden, and Lapland, but also, 
though rarely, in France, Germany, and Italy. 
In this country a few have occasionally been met with. A 
flight were seen on the Denes, near Yarmouth, Norfolk, in 
November, 1822; and in recording the circumstance in the 
‘Account of the Birds found in Norfolk,’ by John Henry 
Gurney, Esq., and William Richard Eisher, Esq., it is added, 
that two instances are on record of their having attempted 
to breed in that district. In one of these cases, the nest 
containing four eggs, was taken near Bungay; and it is said 
to have been found on a low branch of a fir, near the stem 
of the tree, and about three feet from the ground; in the 
other instance, which occurred at Raveningham, the old 
birds were shot while in the act of building. It has also 
