giving an odd appearance : the prime quills have each of them a
fpot of white about the middle of the inner web: the tail is alfo
black, but the two middle feathers incline to cinereous near the
-end, and all the outer ones have the end half white on the inner
webs and tip : the legs are pale brown.
The female is lefs bright in colour: the part between the bill
and eye is grey indead of black.
This may ferve for a general defcription, but the colours vary
much : the head in fome has the top whitifh, furrounded with
rufous ; in others wholly black : the band of the wings in fome
is almoft white, in others grey, and again wholly wanting.
Specimens -have alfo been feen with the body wholly black : the
bread and belly fpotted with rufous; and the upper mandible
•the longed: and -fome have been met with which were wholly
white, the quills excepted *.
This fpecies is ranked among -the Britijh birds; but only
wifits thefe kingdoms occafionally, and for the mod part in winter,
and never known to breed here f . It is more plenty in
.France, coming into Burgundy in fmall flocks, about the beginning
of April; and foon after makes the ned, which is placed
•between the bifurcation of the branches of trees, about twelve
•feet from the ground -. it is compofed of fmall dry fibres, intermixed
with liverwort, and lined with finer materials. The
eggs are of a roundifh diape, of a blueifli green fpotted with
olive brown, with a few irregular black markings interfperfed. It
'* Scopoli.
•f- I once received a Grojbeak, which was fhot in the fummer months
-within a few miles of me.
G R O S B- E A K. i n
is alfo common in Italy, Germany, Sweden *, and the wed and
fouthern parts of Raffia, where the wild fruits grow; in the red of
the empire fcarce, except beyond Lake Baikal, where they arrive
from the fouth in great plenty, to feed on the berries of a tree
peculiar to. that country f .
From the great drength of the bill, it cracks the dones of
the fruit, of the haws, cherries, &c. with the greated eafe. I do
not recoiled! ever feeing it kept in a cage; but if fo, it mud be:
from its lingular appearance,, as I cannot find it recorded by any.
author, for its fong.
Loxia enucleator, Lin. Syß■ 1. p. 299. N° 3. Faun. Suee, 223. Br 5*î
239.— Mül„le rt ,NT°„ 246. +- PINE GR.-
Gros-bec de Canada, Brif. orn. iii. p. 250. N? pl. 12. f. 3. PU enl.
.135* 1 Le Dur-bec, Buß.oiß. iii. p. 457*
Greateft Bulfinch, Edvj. pl. 123, 124. M. Sc F.
Eine Grofbeak, Br. Zàel. i. N®-114. pl. 49- f - ^.— Arä. Zooll
Br. Muß. Lev. Muß.
n pH IS is a larger bird than the laft, being nine inches in D e s c r i p t i o n '*
length,, and two ounces in weight..' The- bill is half an
inch long, and dufky ; it is dout at the bafe,. and the upper
mandible- hooked- at the tip :. the nodrils are covered with recumbent
brown feathers : the head, neck, bread, and rump,- are of a-
tofe-coloured crimfon : the back and leffer wing,coverts black,
edged with reddifli ; the greater wing coverts the fame, tipped
with white,, forming, two bars on the wings: the quills are-
» Sometimes builds in the province of Scania. See It. Scan. 332. Amcen.
Acad. iv. p. 5.94. N° 122.
•f; Pjrus baccata. Lin» Mx, Pennanti.
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