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COCCOTHRAUSTES ATROGULARIS. THE BLACK- 

 THROATED GROSBEAK, OR HAWFI^XH. 



HAWFINCH. COMMON GROSBEAK. GROSBEAK. 



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Loxia Coccothraustes. Linn. Syst. Nat. I. 299. 



Loxia Coccothraustes. Lath. Ind. Orn. I. 571. 



Hawfinch. Mont. Orn. Diet. 



Le Gros-bec. Fringilla Coccothraustes. Temm. Man. d'Orn. I. 344. 



Hawfinch. Coccothraustes vulgaris. Selb. Illustr. I. 324. 



Fringilla Coccothraustes. Common Grosbeak. Jen. Brit. Yert. An. 136. 



Male with the head yellovAsh-hrown^ the throat and space before 

 the eyes UacJc, the fore part of the bach dark chestnut ; four of 

 the primary quills emarginate and curved outwards at the ex- 

 tremity. Female with the colours similar but paler^ the quills 

 similar. 



Male. — This beautiful though by no means elegantly formed 

 bird is with us for the most part merely an occasional ^yinter 

 visitant, and therefore little merits the epithets Common and 

 Vulgaris bestowed upon it even by those who consider as of 

 the same genus the Greenfinch, which has a good enough claim 

 to those titles. It is in several respects a bird of singular ap- 

 pearance, but more especially on account of the great size of 



