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he male has dark crimson on head, neck 
and throat, dusky on his back, and in- 
clined to straw color below. His song is 
of many strains, and resembles much 
that of a canary, though not so powerful. 
He is one of our most musical singers. 
One bird that I have not mentioned is 
arare visitor, but I saw a few here last 
winter, and that is the Pine Grossbeak. 
It is a bird about as large as a robin; the 
male being darkish red on his back, with 
rosy red on his head ; the female being 
more Quaker-like with shades of dusky 
red on crown and rump. They are neat 
and trig as to form, and when here are 
most likely to be found feeding on the 
berries of the mountain ash. I have 
never heard its song. 
The Partridge you find enly in the 
woods or in the orchards near the groves. 
The Quail lives in the fields and pastures 
and in the brushwood along the edge 
‘of the woods, but it sometimes drops 
into our city gardens. Its note of ‘‘ More 
