Class II. HAW GROSBEAK. 



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GENUS XXI. GROSBEAK. 



Bill strong, thick, convex above and below. 

 Nostrils small and round. 

 Tongue as if cut oif at the end. 



Loxia Coccothraustes. L. ci- 

 nereo-castanea, linea alarum 

 alba, remigibus mediis apice 

 rhombeis, rectricibus latere 

 tenuiore baseos nigris. Lath. 

 Ind. orn. 371. id. Syn. iii. 

 103. id. Sup. i. 148. 



Le Grosbec ou Pinson royal. 

 Belon av. 373. 



Coccothraustes (steinbeisser) 

 Gesner av. 27^- 



Aldr. av. ii. 289- 



Frosone. Olina 37. 



Grosbeak, or Hawfinch. Wtl. 

 orn. 244. 



Rail Syn. av. 85. 



Charlton ex. 9 1 . 



DIeschk. Scopoli, No. 201. 

 Edw. av. 188. The male. 

 Le Grosbec. Brisson av. iii. 



219. Hiit. d'ois. iii. 444. 



PI. Enl. 99, 100. 

 Loxia Coccothraustes. Gm. 



Lin. 844. 

 Stenkneck. Faun. Suec. sp. 



222. 

 Kernbeis, Nusbeisser. Kram. 



365. 

 Kirschfinch (Cherry-finch). 



Frisch, i. 4. 

 Brunnich, in append. 

 Br. Zool. 105. plate U. Fig. 1. 



Arct. Zool. ii. 40. 



1. Haw. 



XHE birds we describe were shot in Shrop- 

 shire: they visit us only at uncertain times, and 

 are not regularly migrant. "^ They feed on ber- 



* " The Hawfinch visits us chiefly in winter, but one was 

 shot in the summer months near Dartford, in Kent. Mr. 



