Q74, BIRDS. 
races of them, also, are known, which differ as to size, and even, as 
it is said, in their notes, and in the form of the bill, Lox. curviros- 
tra, Naum. 110, and Lox. pytiopsittacus, Bechst., Naum. 109*. 
We cannot remove from the Bullfinches and the Crossbills 
Corytuus +}, Cuv. 
The point of whose completely arched bill curves over the lower mandible. 
The most known species, 
Loxia enucleator, L.; Enl. 135, 1; or better, Edw. 128, 124; 
Vieill. Gal. 53; Naum. 112. The Pine Grosbeak inhabits the 
north of both continents, and lives in the same way as the Crossbill. 
It is red, or reddish, the feathers of the tail and wings black, edged 
with white f. 
The north of the globe produces neighbouring species of equal 
beauty as to colour, individuals of which sometimes find their way 
into Germany §. 
Coutus ||, Gm. 
The Colies also approximate considerably to the preceding birds. Their 
bill is short, thick, conical, and somewhat compressed, its two mandibles 
being arcuated, but without extending beyond each other; the quills of 
their tail are cuneiform, and very long; their thumb, as in Cypselus, is 
capable of being directed forwards like the other toes; their fine and 
silky feathers are generally cinereous. They inhabit Africa and India, 
climb something in the manner of Parrots, live in flocks, build many of 
their nests on the same bush, and sleep suspended to its branches in 
crowds, with the head downwards. ‘They feed on fruit**. 
Here also come the 
Burpuaca, Briss. 
The Beef-eaters form a small genus in which the bill is of a moderate 
length, cylindrical at the beginning, and inflated (both mandibles) near 
the end, which terminates in a blunt point. They use it to compress the 
skin of cattle in order to force out the larve of the Cistrus lodged in it, 
on which they feed. 
One species only is known, and that is from Africa; brownish, 
* Add, Lox. leucoptera, Lath. Vieill. Gall. 53, and Wils. Am. Ornith. 
+ Corythus, Greek name of an unknown bird. Vieillot has changed this name 
into that of STROBILIPHAGA. 
+ Loxia flamengo, (Sparm. Mus. Carl. pl. xvii), appears to me to be a mere albino 
variety of the enucleator. The Lox. psittacea of the Sandwich Islands, Lath. Syn. 
II, pl. xlii, or Psrrractrostra icterocephala, Temm. Col. 457, appears to differ 
from Corythus only in a little greater prolongation of the curved point of the bill. 
§ Low. erythrina, Pall. or Fringilla flammea, L., Naum. 113, 1, 2;—Zoz. rosea, 
Pall. Naum. 113, 3;—J/’r. purpurea, Wils. I, vii, 4. 
|| Koloios, the Greek name of a small species of Crow. 
**® Col. capensis, Enl. 282, 1; Vaill. 258, and the young, 256. This latter is the 
C. striatus, and the C. panayensis ;—Col. erythropus, Gm.; leuconotus, Lath. Vaill. 
257;—Col. gularis, Vaill. 259. 
I place near the Colies the birds called Merion natté (Malurus teatilis, Less.), and 
Merion leucoptére (M. leucopterus, Id.), Voy. de Freycin. pl. 23. 
