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Pine Bullfinch

or PINE GROS- BEAK, Pyrrhula or Pinicola enucleator, a wellknown bird with head, neck, fore part of breast, and rump bright red; back grayish-brown or black, edged with red; lower parts light gray; two white bands on the dusky wings; larger than regions, whence it migrates S. in numbers in the United States, more sparingly in Europe; called also pinefinch and pine grosbeak.

N. W. parts of the Continent. The red the bullfinch. Common in the Arctic Canadian pine (P. resinosa) is found from Canada to the Pacific, but does not reach far S. in the United States. It is the yellow pine of Canada and Nova Scotia.

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