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FAM. FRINGILLIDyE. 



FINCHES. 



LOXIGILLA VIOLA CE A. {Linn.) 

 Purple Grosbeak. 



Local Name. — Spanish Paroquet. 



Winter Plumage, Jlfalc. — Entire plumage black, showing a 

 slight brownish tinge upon the quills, throat, crissum, and a crescent 

 over the eye, reddish brown ; bill and legs, black. 



Winter Plumage, Female. — Upper parts, gray, \\'ith a tinge of 

 olive-green upon the back ; below, ash, lightest upon the belly, show- 

 ing a tinge of olive upon the breast and sides ; quills with fine 

 edgings of dull white; crissum, a crescent over the eye, and mark- 

 ings upon the chin, pale reddish brown, much lighter than in the 

 male; under mandible pale. Immature birds resemble the female. 



Length 6, wing 3, tail 2.S5, tarsus, .80, bill .50. 



The Purple Grosbeak, or Spanish Paroquet as it is called by the 

 negroes, is abundant throughout the Bahama Islands. Upon eveiy 

 island of any size which we visited, the thick undergrowth resounded 



