The Evening Grosbeak is a notable traveler from the far northwest whose rare, irregular, and unheralded visits and striking appearance make him always a welcome and distinguished guest.
The Blue Grosbeakis an unfamiliar bird to most eastern students.
In the summer the Pines Grosbeak lives in coniferous forests, but on its irregular wanderings southward, like the Evening Grosbeak, it feeds upon the seeds of deciduous trees and bushes.
A red, red rose never blooms in a clover meadow, and the grosbeak does not go there for his chief spring adornment.
Red roses do bloom all the year, though none so lovely as the rose of June; and so the grosbeak wears his distinctive flower at his throat the round year, but it is loveliest in early summer.
The one who inspires it looks like an overgrown sparrow; but grosbeak knows the difference, if you do not.
The black grosbeak is another variety that deserves encouragement in every way, for it eats the chrysalis of the codling-moth that is so serious a foe to our apple crop.
In some parts of the country the grosbeak feeds largely on the plum scale, the hickory scale, the locust and oak scales and on the tulip scale, which is very destructive to shade trees.
Members of the more aristocratic finch and grosbeak branches of the family, however, who wear brighter clothes, pay the penalty by decreasing numbers as our boasted civilisation surrounds them.
Although they look as if they belonged {134} in the tropics, cardinals never migrate as the rose-breasted grosbeak and so many of our fair-weather feathered friends do.
Some people call this grosbeak the potato-bug bird.
Dugmore) 116 A Baby Chippy and its Two Big Rose-breasted Grosbeak Cousins .
The bluebird and pine grosbeak have it too, but their much larger, trembling wings seem far less nervous.
During bright moonshiny nights theGrosbeak sings sweetly, but not loudly.
This Grosbeak is common in southern Indiana, northern Illinois, and western Iowa.
The common European grosbeak or hawfinch is Coccothraustes vulgaris.
In its native state the Pine Grosbeak feeds upon the seeds of the fir-trees, which it picks out of the open cones or gleans from the ground.
The most touching tales are told of the attachment of the Pine Grosbeak to its mate.
In its habits the Pine Grosbeak often reminds us of the Cross-bill; it is essentially a tree-bird, being quite at home upon a branch, but uneasy and out of place upon the ground.
Are you related to Rosebreast the Grosbeak who nested last summer in the Old Orchard?
While Rosebreast sang, Mrs. Grosbeak was very busily picking buds and blossoms from the tree.
I've never seen him because he never ventures up where I live and I don't go down where he spends the winter, but all members of the Grosbeak family are cousins.
I suppose you know that Rosebreast the Grosbeak and Glory the Cardinal are members of my family.
She looked no more like beautiful Redcoat than did Mrs. Grosbeak like Rosebreast.
XLIV MORE FOLKS IN RED The Pine Grosbeakand the Redpoll.
Because they hold their berries all winter," replied Mrs. Grosbeak promptly, "and those berries make very good eating.
This beautiful grosbeak is noted for its clear, melodious notes, which are poured forth in generous measure.
The Cardinal Grosbeakis known as the Winter Redbird.
The fidelity and affectionate intimacy of married bird-life appears most conspicuously in pairs of the Grosbeak family and in small parrots.
Even the little gentle grosbeak will endeavour, by violent pecking, to drive away males of the same or closely related species from the neighbourhood of his loved one.
Again, he says the song of the blue grosbeak resembles the bobolink's, which it does about as much as the two birds resemble each other in color; one is black and white and the other is blue.
As he began to undo the box I expected to see some of our own rarer birds, perhaps the rose-breasted grosbeakor Bohemian chatterer.
It is an easy matter, therefore, for the Grosbeakto break off a single seed.
The remainder, the whole kernel and perhaps two-thirds of the husk, the Grosbeak mumbles in his bill, and in an incredibly short time discards from the sides of his beak the more or less macerated remains of the husk.
In the United States, the Mocking-Bird enjoys the greatest reputation; the Rose-breasted Grosbeak and the New York Thrush are also nocturnal songsters.
The Rose-breasted Grosbeak (Loxia rosea) is said to be an excellent songster, passing the greater part of the night in singing, and continuing vocal in confinement.
The blue grosbeak frequents the thickets of shrubs, briars and tall weeds lining a stream flowing across a meadow or bordering a field, or the similar growth which has sprung up in an old clearing.
At the first note of this grosbeak all other songs were forgotten--they were noise and chatter--this was pure music.
The black-headed grosbeak has not the spirituality of the hermit thrush, and his ordinary song is not so remarkable, but his love song excels that of any bird I have ever heard in finish, rich melody, and music.
The Pine Grosbeak seems to bear confinement, but when caged it is said that after the first moulting the crimson color of the plumage is replaced by a bright yellow.
Pine seeds seem to form the principal food of the Pine Grosbeak though it also feeds extensively on those of the birch, alder and related trees.
The Pine Grosbeak is a retiring bird and would seem to be somewhat shy as it does not frequent the roadside or inhabited places except when forced to do so by the lack of food.
The song of the Grosbeak is singularly like that of the Robin, and to one not thoroughly familiar with the notes of the latter a difference would not at first be detected.
I thought then, if we could only have the Evening Grosbeak our group of colors would be complete.
The cardinal grosbeak stays as far north as New Jersey and Ohio all winter, and a little flock have lived in Central Park, New York, for several years.
The rose-breasted grosbeak is one who puts on his gay colors only for the nesting season.
Of these birds, all except the fox sparrow and the blue grosbeak are familiar summer songsters throughout the Middle and Eastern States.
The authorities state that the evening grosbeak has no immature plumage, but passes after its first moulting immediately into full plumage.
With the Carolina wren and the tufted titmouse, the cardinal grosbeak completes a trio of birds that can never be commonplace to one born north of Central Park, New York, which is about the limit of their northern range.
Yet the cardinal grosbeak stays with us all winter, and I have seen four of the vivid males at a time, all crimson against the white snow.
The history of the evening grosbeak illustrates the far-reaching and never-ending consequences of a falsehood.
They looked like overgrown goldfinches, just as the pine grosbeak looks like an overgrown purple finch, and the blue grosbeak of the south for all the world like a monstrous indigo bunting.
As a matter of fact, the evening grosbeak goes to bed at dark, like all other respectable, reputable birds.
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