GR © S BOE A K. 141 
thighs, and under tail coverts, black: breaft, and fides of the 
belly, white: back, wings, and tail, chefnut: legs brown. 
The female has the thighs chefnut, and the colours are lefs FEMALE, 
vivid. 
Inhabits Fava.. PLACEe 
Loxia Malacca, Liz. Syf. i. p. 302. N° 16. @ : 47 
Le Gros-bec de la Chine, Brif- orn. iii. p. 235..N° 7». Var. A. 
Chinefe Sparrows, Edw. pl. 43. 
NTZE of the laft. Head, throat, and fore part of the neck, Dzscrirrion. 
black: the reft of the plumage chefnut: bill and legs cine-- 
reous.. 
The female has thetop of the head, and upper parts, cinereous.  FEMAnE.. 
brown : fides of the head, and under parts, , reddifh white.:: quills. 
and tail blackifh: legs flefh-colour.. 
Inhabits Cdina.. PLaces 
Loxia Molucca, Lin. Spf. i. p. 302. N° 17.. 
Le Gros-bec des Moluques, Bri/- orm iii. p. 241; ple 135 fi 3.—Pls exls 139¢ MOLUGCA GR. 
ap kez) 
Lencrn four inches. Bill dufky: the fore part of the Description. 
head, and fides and fore part of the neck, black: hind part. 
of the head, and upper parts, brown:: rump, and under parts,, 
from the breaft, tranfverfely barred with black. and white: the: 
upper tail coverts, and tail,, black.: the quills deep brown: legs. 
brown. 
Inhabits the Molucca Tes. Pacts 
3: Loxia 
