PLAN T-CUT TER. 
* * WITH THREE TOES. 
Loxia tridaétyla, Jud. Orz.i. p. 397. 93- 
Le Guifso Balito, Buf Ov/- ili. p. 471. 
Phytotome d’Abyflinie, Daudin. Orn. ii. p. 366. 2. 
Three-toed Grofbeak, Gen, Syz. iil. ps 471- 
IZE of the common Grofeak; length about fix inches: bill 
brown: the head and fore part of the neck red; the reft of the 
plumage black ; about the fhoulders brownifh, with a tinge of green: 
the greater wing coverts appearing as black fcales, margined with 
white, flightly tinged with olive: taila trifle forked: legs brown, with 
only three toes, two placed before and one behind. : 
This isthe defcription given by M. Daudin, from a-drawing fent him 
figured from a Nubian fpecimen: it feems, however, to differ a little 
frorn that defcribed by Buffon, for that bird is faid to be black, with 
not only the head and-fore part of the neck of a beautiful red, but 
that colour prolonged in a narrow band quite to the vent: wing 
coverts brown, edged with white; and the quills edged ‘with green. 
M. Buffon defcribed his from Mr. Bruce’s drawings done in Abyffinia, 
where it is faid to be a folitary {pecies, livingon the kernels of almonds,, 
the fhells of which it eafily breaks with the bill, 
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DzscriPTion. 
