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CHAPTER VI. 



WHITE-HEADED GROSBEAK. Fringilla 

 leuco-cephala. 



Another imported East Indian variety, 

 of plain, but neat plumage, living in its 

 native land on the rice-fields and among 

 the thickets which line the shores of the 

 large rivers. 



Its plumage is of a reddish-brown, 

 excepting the back, which is darker, and 

 the head, which is of a creamy-white. Its 

 bill is white in colour, and as large in 

 proportion to its size, or even larger than 

 that of the Java Sparrow. 



Its song is low and short, but harmo- 

 nious. 



It may be kept in the cage on canary- 

 seed alone, or will thrive well on the same 

 treatment as the Canary-bird. It is very 

 familiar. 



