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THE CRIMSON-CRESTED GROSSBEAK. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Bill ftrong, thick, and convex. 

 Nostrils fmall. 

 Tongue truncated. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Black Grofsbeak with a white fpot on the wings, and a crimfon creft-likc 

 band on the hind-head. 



THIS bird, of which the native country is not certainly known, has never 

 yet been figured, and may be confidered as one of the rareft of its ge- 

 nus. It approaches very near to the Loxia craffiroftris of Mr. Latham, but 

 differs in having on the hind part of the head a very remarkable creft-like 

 zone, or broad tranfverfe band, of the richeft crimfon. It is therefore ex- 

 tremely probable, that it is a diftindt fpecies from the Loxia craffiroftris, (unlefs 

 it fhould, perhaps, be rather confidered as the male of that fpecies.) 



LOXIA 



