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MADAGASCAR GROSBEAK. 

 (Loxia madagascariensis.) 



L. rubra, dorso nigricante-maculato, rostro albo. 



Red Grosbeak with the back spotted with blackish, and beak 



white. 

 Loxia madagascariensis. Lin. Syst. Nat. 1. 300. 6. — Gmel. Syst. 



Nat. 1. 847. — Lath. Ind. Orn. 1. 376. 16. 

 Cardinalis madagascariensis. Briss. 3. 112. 20. t. 6.f. 2. 

 Le Foudis. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 3. 4Q5. 

 Moineau de Madagascar. Buff. PI. Enl. 134. f. 1. 

 Madagascar Grosbeak. Lath. Gen. Syn. 3. 119. 15. — Lath. 



Syn. Sup. 150. 



This beautiful species is the size of a House 

 Sparrow : length above five inches : beak white : 

 head, neck, back, breast, and belly, bright crim- 

 son : quills and tail brown, margined with olive- 

 green : legs grey-brown : young bird olive. Is 

 known at Madagascar by the name of Foudi lahe 

 ?nena>, and in India, by that of the Common Totty. 



