INSESSORES. E j ' 1 —
CONIROSTRES. — _ F R IN G JL L IDM .
T H E P IN E GROSBEAK.
Loxia enucleator^
Corythus
Pyrrhula ,, :
Corythug ,,
Pyrrhula
Pine Grosbeak, "^pENN. Britr Zbol. vot. i. p. 423>: ,
jg rjtr'V » Mqjtt. Ornith, Diets, '
r> " BEwicKpBrit. Birds, vol, i; p„ 166;
Common Hawfinch.,'Flem. Brit. An. p, 76i. • ’
Pine Bullfinch; ^SeeSV, Brit. Ornith. vdfc ft p. 334,
I ” » Jent^ Brit. Vert. p. 141.
„ Grosbeak^ Gould, Birds' of feurope, pt. iff _
Tem* . Maa.'d’Ornilii. vol. i. p. S&3.
T h e P i n e G bosbeak appears to. be a very rare bird in
this country, and but few instances-of its having, been obtained
are either known Or recorded. Pennant says that he
saw them flying above the great forests of Invercauld, in
Aberdeenshire ; and he imagined that they had bred there,
because he .saw them as early as the 5th of August. Mr.
Selbyjoflsferves, | 4 Such a conclusion, however, ought scarcely
to be inferred from this-fact, as a sufficient interval of time
had elapsed foy-these individuals to have emigrated from
Norway, or-other northern? countries to Scotland, after incubation!
as theykare known to breed as early as May in their
native haunts*^ I have made many inquiries respecting
these birds,- during excursions in j Scotland, but cannot learn
that the fleet! has ever beeflpbind ; and indeed, from the intelligence
obtained from gamekeeper's,'? and those most'likely
• to have made^ observations;, connected witlT ornithology, it
appears, that they are. very rarely.seen, and cati only be regarded
asiocdasional -vifeitantsd^p
- M e s s rs^ . J.'.and JameSrcPag'et, in their sketch of the
-Natural History of »Yarmouth, -mention .at page 6, that a
flight of theS^vbirds Were ;see#/pn the Denes in November
Mr. Rylands, udihisTCktalogue of Birds found in Lan-
; c^sh&$,%ublrsiR‘d in the second volume of the Naturalist,
' includes the Pine Grbsb'eabas obtained- in Hulston fir trees,*
©n the authority, of T. K. Glazebrook, E sq .; and a female
•mT«.y o$rh collection was shotbeome years ago at Harrow on
the Hill." -
The Pipe Grosbeak, or Pine Bullfinch as it is frequently
called, @|®s||y resembles the Common Bullfinch in the form
of it# beak, • and in other generic1 characters ; while it agrees
with the.^ossbills in many of it-st habits*,, as well, as in the
•; -general colpuririg and changes of its plumage*-
< The food of. this species is, seeds and berries it frequents
pitied forefi, builds a nest’ of small sticks, with a lining of
feathers, and usually places it on. a branch of a tree., a few
feet-only above the'ground, I t lays four or five white eggs,
about one inch long; by den linete in breadth : and the young