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THE SPOTTED-SIDED GROSSBEAK. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Bill ftrong, thick, and convex. 

 Nostrils fmall. 

 Tongue truncated. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Brown Grofsbeak with black bread, red bill and rump; the fides of the body 

 black fpotted with white. 



THIS beautiful little bird, which the plate reprefents in its natural fize, 

 has perhaps never before been figured. It is engraved from a fine fpe- 

 cimen in the L,everian Muleum, and may juftly be confidered as one of the 

 moft elegant of its tribe. It is a native of New Holland. 



