£48 
PLACE. 
Ba i 
THICK-BILLED 
GR. 
Descriprion, 
62. 
BLACK- 
BREASTED GR. 
DESCRIPTION. 
GROSBEA EK. 
upper mandible: plumage black, except a ligtle white on the 
fore part of the wing, and bafe of the two firft quills: legs 
black. 
Inhabits Mexico. 
IZE of a Bulfinch : length five inches three quarters. The 
bill is of a large fize, and deeper than it is long, being 
three quarters of an inch from the bafe on the forehead to that 
of the under jaw: the bafe of the upper mandible pafies 
backward fome way on the forehead ; about one-third from the 
tip is a deep notch; the colour of the bill a pale yellow: the 
plumage 1s wholly black, except the bottoms of the quills, which 
are white, forming a fpot on the wing: tail two inches long; 
bafe of the middle feathers white: legs whitith. 
In Mr. Tunfral’s collection. Native place uncertain. 
Br. Mu. 
S IZE of the leaft Titmoufe: length fcarcely four inches. Bill 
black: the plumage on the upper parts in general black : 
beneath white, except a band of black acrofs the breaft; above 
which the white paffes in a narrow crefcent almoft round the 
neck: on the wings are two bands of white: tail rounded, and 
black ; the feathers rather fharp at the ends: legs brown. 
This is in the Britifo Mufeum, and | believe came from fome 
part of America. . 
Loxia 
