GROSBEAK, 



151 



Hamburgh Grofbeak, Ge». Sy/i. uL p. 149. N" 64. 



T^pROM the information given me, concerning this bird, by 

 Mr. Tunjlall, I have good reafon to fuppofe it nothing elle 

 than our Mountain or Tree Finch. The above gentleman, inquifi- 

 tlve to know what this bird really was, fent on purpofe to a friend 

 at Hamburgh for a fpecimenj when, to his aflonifhmenr, the 

 bird fent proved no other than the Tree Sparrow ; nor could he 

 learn that any other, more likely to prove the bird in queftion, 

 which he meant to have, exifted thereabouts ; and, to fay the 

 truth, the defcriptions of both agree greatly upon paper, however 

 Brijfon and Alhin may have thought to the contrary. 



64. 



HAMBURGH 



GR. 



Black-bellied Grofbeak, Gen. Syn. iii. p. 155. N07J. 



T DO not recolleft feeing this bird, except in Mr. TunJlaU's col- 

 leftion. He informs me, that it lived with him for fome 

 time, and moulted twice in a year. In winter it was brown. 



75- 



ELACK-BEL- 



LIED GR. 



Afiatic Grolbeak, Gen, Syti. iii. p. 155. N° 76. _g^ 



Var.'a. 

 T EN GT H feven inches. Bill ftout, a little bent; the colour ASIATIC GR. 



reddifh orange, with a dufky point : irides red : the whole of DEscaipnoN. 



the head is black : the upper part of the neck, body, and lefler 



wing coverts, blueifh afh-colour ; beneath, afh-colour, but paler, 



inclining to orange under the wings : the greater wing coverts, 



quills, and tail, black ; the laft forked in (hape : the prime quills, 



fecondaries, and two of the middle tail feathers, tipped with 



white : legs red. 



SOPPL. 



X 



Defcribed 



