G RGOQ;) Sy Bi FAK, 
fering in that the tail was longer than the body : in winter the cock 
is grey, as the hen, who has not a long tail, is all the year round. 
Its flow flight, on account of the length of its tail, make it not only 
eafy to fhoot, but in rainy or windy weather may almoft be caught 
with the hands; there is little doubt but that this and the foregoing 
are the fame. 
Loxia fafciata, Ind, Orn. i. p. 395. 87.-—Nat. Mic. ii. pl. 56.—Ger. Orn. ili. 
tab. 358. f. 1. fem ? 
Fafciated Grofbeak, Gen. Syz, iii. p. 156. 80.—Id. Sup. p. 154. 
AVING an opportunity of examining both fexes of this bird, 
I obferved that in the ma/e, the chin and throat were of a filvery 
whitenefs: breaft and belly pale cinnamon colour; middle of the 
belly chefnut: quills black, with the fecondaries tipped with pale 
cinnamon: tail black ; all but the two middle feathers have a fpot 
of white on the inner web at the tip, but on the outermoft the whole 
of the inner tip is white. 
The female differs in being every where paler, and in wanting the 
crimfon band on the throat; the under part wholly pale cinnamon 
colour, and the white at the tips of the tail feathers lefs confpicuous. 
Loxia prafina, Izd. Orn. i, p. 396. 91-—Mu/f. Carlf. fafe. iii. t. 72. 73. 
Bouvreuil prafin, Daudin. Orn. ii. p. 422. 
SIZE of a Sikin: the male is olive green; beneath yellowith orey: 
the rump red, as alfo a feather or two on the belly: the legs 
yellow: tail rounded, black; the two middle feathers red above ; 
the others the fame on the outer margin. 
The female is olive brown, beneath yellow grey: the rump dull 
red: quills cinereous, eight of the fecondaries whitifh on the anterior 
margins and tips: the tail feathers black tipped with white: the bill 
in both black. 
Inhabits the ifland of ¥eva ; found in the rice fields, 
Ciey2 
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FASCIATED 
GR. 
DeEscRIPTION, 
8. 
PRASINE 
GR. 
DescRIPTION. 
Puace. 
