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DESCRIPTION. 
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Loxia Hudfonica, Jzd. Orn. i. Pp. 379. 28. 
Bouvreuil de la Baye d’Hudfon, Daud. Orn. ii. p..416. 
ENGTH five inches: bill fhort, thick, and brown: plumage 
above deep brown, but the feathers moftly-margined with ru- 
fous; the greater and middle wing coverts tipped with the fame, pro- 
ducing a bar on the wing: breaft and belly-white, marked with long 
brown dafhes: the middle of the belly and vent) white: tail a trifle 
forked: legs brown. 
Inhabits Ludjon’s Bay; known there by the name of Atic-koom-a-/hifh. 
*Loxia focia, Jad. On i Pagorengige 
Tifferin republicain, Daud. Orn. ii. p. 397. 
Loxia, Paterjon’s Cap. p. 133. t. in p. 126.—Bird and neff. 
‘CTZE ofa Bulfinch : length five inches and a half: bill and 
lore black: the general colour of the plumage rufous brown; 
‘beneath yellow: region of the ear yellowith: tail fhort: legs brown. 
Inhabits the interior parts of the Cape of Good Hope, building in 
waft numbers, in one fociety, on the Mimofa Trees, uniting: their fe- 
veral nefts under one common roof; and it is faid that not fewer than 
800 or 1,000 form together one community ; not perhaps that this 
circumftance happens in one year, for they are obferved to add to the 
fize of the neft from year-to :year, till the tree, unable to bear any 
further. addition of -weight, neceffarily falls beneath its load, when the 
birds are in courfe conftrained to fearch a new place of abode. Mr. 
Paterfou, on examining one of thefe, found many entrances, each of 
which formed a regular ftreet, with nefts on both fides, at about two 
inches diftance from each other. ‘The material with which thefe 
birds build, is called Bofhman’s Grafs; and the feeds of it faid to be 
their principal food ; but the wings and legs of infects have been like- 
wife obferved in the nefts. 
ns M. Daudin 
