194 
c. 
SUMATRAN 
GR. 
Description. 
PLAcE. 
6. 
CAFFRARIAN 
GR. 
DiscripTiOn. 
PLACE, 
G R-O S BE A ® 
Loxia hypoxantha, Ind. Orn. 1. p. 384: 44.—Daudin. Orn. it. p. 429.—-Mufe 
Carll: il. t. 71. 
IZE of a Yellow Hammer: the bill and legs are of a pale colour: 
irides rufous: the general colour of the plumage of the upper 
parts is yellowifh green: the forehead and all the under parts yellow : 
wings dufky black, with yellow margins: tail black alfo, even at the 
end, and the margins of the feathers yellow. 
Inhabits the rice fields of the ifland of Sumatra, from whence a 
fpecimen was brought, and continued alive for fometime in the col- 
lection of Count Carlfon. 
Loxia Caffra, 7nd. Ora. i. p. 393. 78 —AG. Stock. 1784. p. 289; 
Fringilla Caffra longicauda, Spalowyk. Vog. iii, t. 42. fem ? 
IZE of the Bulfinch: bill cinereous brown: general colour of 
the plumage black ; with a tail longer than the body, and fome- 
times of double the length: the quills are brown margined with white: 
wing coverts white: fhoulders crimfon: legs grey. ¢ 
Inhabits the Cape of Good Hope: at certain feafons the ma/z is grey, 
but the female is continually of that colour: faid to build in marfhy 
places *. I fufpect this bird to be the fame as my Orange-/houldered 
Bunting, but as 1 do not find the bird any where figured, I cannot 
afcertain the circumftance; perhaps the one above referred to in 
Spalow/ki may prove the female. 
Mr. Zhunberg, in his travels, talks of a bird called Lang/taart, 
which is found in the marfhes and low fields about Sea Cow River; 
likens it to a goldfinch in its red velvet or fummer drefs ; but dif- 
* Mr. Barrow fays the neft is curious, compofed of grafs, plaited into a 
round ball, faftened between two reeds; the entrance through a tube, the orifice of 
which is next the water: thought to be polygamous; for although thirty or forty 
nefts are often in one clump of reeds, never more than two males are feen amongft 
them. Barrow’s Trav. p. 24.4. 
+ Vol. ii. p. 64. 
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