PINICOLA.
Larger than "Carpodacus "; upper mandible more curved; frequent pine-woods chiefly ; cup nest in trees ; eggs sky blue, with greyish and black spots.
Pinicola enucleator enucleator (L.). PINE GROSBEAK. Fr. Dur bee ; Ger. Hakengimpel ; Swed. Tallbit.
Carmine, bases of feathers grey ; head, neck, and rump more brilliant ; back grey with carmine margins ; wing coverts tipped and secondaries margined white ; centre of abdomen, under tail and wing coverts grey. Bill horn brown, lighter below.
Legs and feet dark brown. \Ving 108-114, 9 104-109. Tarsus 21-22. Bill 13-14. 9 orange or dull golden brown with grey bases. The S has much the same plumage as 9 until the second year moult.
Breedc.—N. Scandinavia (in Sweden south to and N. Russia. Occurs in %%inter to S. and W. : Ilungary, N. Italy and S. France (occasional), Britain (rare), Volga (irregular).