The Grosbeaks. 



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Black-and-Yellow Hawfinch (Mycerobas melanoxanthus). 



Although not an uncommon Indian bird, this does not seem to be 

 frequently imported. The female is, very different from the male, 

 above black, mottled with yellow, the wing-feathers with yellow 

 edges ; the face broadly striped alternately yellow and black, the 



MR E. V. KAINE S HAWFINCH. 

 {From a Photograph by Mr Wilkinson, Silloth.) 



back of the cheeks and sides of neck yellow streaked with black ; 

 the under parts yellow, the breast and sides spotted with black 

 streaks. As this does not profess to be a treatise comprising the 

 whole of the imported cage-birds, it seems hardly worth while to 

 consider Pheucticus, Oryzoborus or Melopyrrlia, but a handsome 

 bird like Mycerobas, which is sometimes to be purchased, seemed to 

 me worth noting. 



