SOME ACCOUNT 
OF THE 
MANNERS OF THE GRENADIER GROSBEAK 
(Lowia oryx, Linn.) 
WHEN IN CAPTIVITY. 
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Dourine a visit to the aviary of the late Mr. Garside, 
at his residence in Piccadilly, Manchester, I noticed, 
among various objects of attraction to the bird-fancier, 
such as piping Bullfinches, loquacious Starlings, 
and superb Parrakeets, which displayed powers of 
imitation as astonishing as they were entertaining, 
several choice exotic birds, whose habits and notes 
afforded me much gratification. A fine male Gre- 
nadier Grosbeak, in particular, engaged my atten- 
tion: I say a male, although it had not the black 
plumage on the throat which Dr. Latham seems 
disposed to regard as a characteristic of that sex ; 
for Barrow, in his ‘Travels into the Interior of 
Southern Africa,’ vol. i. p. 243, distinctly states that 
“the male is remarkable for its gaudy plumage 
during the spring and summer months ;”’ and, again, 
