of southern Oregon they are regular summer visitors, 
delighting their hosts, where they have accepted offerings 
on bird tables, by their slow-going ways and varied, artistic 
concerts. 
Pictures, or museum specimens give but siggenions of 
_ the beauty of the black heads with the big, bluish-slate beak, 
golden brown breast and head trimmings. Not until they 
“move into your neighborhood can you appreciate their 
clumsy charm, and then they become sources of endless 
pleasure as day after aay they able you eiinipsen of oe 
~~ gentle natures. 
Still another kind ae fetes cone bills was cee near 
-Paulsbo, Washington during the period of spring migration. 
The call notes, resembling those of blackbirds, had led a 
group of women, wandering along a country road, to the 
_ balsam fir tree where two grosbeaks with rosy-pink plumage 
were feeding on seeds. While most bird books say that the 
_ Alaska Pine Grosbeak is found in the Northwest “except on 
the Pacific Coast,” the decision was made that we had been 
fortunate enough to meet a wandering pair of these lovely 
_ birds. They were not at all shy and we had plenty of time 
_ to compare them with our memories of stuffed specimens. 
A gorgeous creature that flits about, usually in the 
' - upper layers of evergreen branches, is scarcely known to 
_ bird classes of the west, let alone ordinary people. They 
have never caught the brilliant flashes of scarlet, black, or 
q gold of the Louisiana Tanager, although they may have 
heard his voice on the edges of cities in the bits of primeval 
forest that man has not yet had time to destroy. 
___—s+iTf his calls were noticed the listener has probably 
_ thought “Another robin”. If he had listened carefully to 
_ the metallic “air-ic,”’ where the “y” was rolled with a real 
- Scotch burr, repeated rather rapidly, sometimes once, 
 oftener twice or three times, followed by silence, he 
- might have hunted for the singer. A robin is apt to_ 
_ keep his carol ringing longer, and he varies the repetitions, 
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