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24. 
RED-BREAST- 
ED GR. 
DESCRIPTION. 
PLACE. 
25. 
SPOTTED GR. 
DESCRIPTION. 
GeakiO  §) Bek, Av K, 
Loxia Ludoviciana, Liz, Sy/f, i. p. 306, N° 38. 
Gros-bec de la Louifiane, Bri/ orx. iii. p. 247. pl. 12. f, 2. — Pl. enl. 153. 
a 240 
Le Rofe Gorge, Buf. os/. iil. p. 460. 
Red-breafted Grofbeak, Ar. Zool. 
Br. Muf. Lev. Muf. 
E N GT Hi fix inches and three quarters. Bill, like that of 
a Bulfinch, brown: head, upper parts of the body, and bafe 
half of the tail, black: breaft, and under wing coverts, light 
purple: belly, thighs, vent, and rump, white, varied on the belly 
with a few purple {pots : on the wings are three white marks ; one 
acrofs the coverts, a fecond parallel to the edge of the wing, and 
a third on the tip of the fcapulars: the lower half of the three 
outer tail feathers is white, and the inner web, at the tip of the 
fourth, of the fame colour : legs brown. 
One of thefe, in the Leverian Mufeum, differs in having the 
fides of the breaft, and over the thighs, of a ferruginous brown 
colour: vent very pale yellow. 
That defcribed by Buffon had a rofe-coloured breaft, and is fo 
coloured in the Planckes Enluminées. 
Inhabits Loui/iana. 
Lev. Muf. 
IZE ofa Yellow-hammer. Bill pale, moderately ftout, with 
a dufky tip: the plumage on the upper parts dufky: every 
feather, except the greater coverts and quills, fpotted at the end 
with white: the under parts dirty white, marked with dufky 
ftreaks: over the eye a pale ftreak: the outer tail feather has 
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