260 CRESTED GROSBEAK. 



blackish at the ends : under parts pale blueish- 

 ash : tail blackish, edged with pale ash : legs dull 

 flesh-colour : inhabits Asia. 



CRESTED GROSBEAK. 

 (Loxia cristata.) 



L. albicans ,fronte cristata, uropygio pedibusque rubris, rectrki- 



bus duabus intermediis longissimis. 

 Whitish Grosbeak with the forehead crested, rump and feet 



red, and two middle tail-feathers very long. 

 Loxia cristata. Lin. Syst. Nat. 1. 301. Q. — Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 



849. — Lath. Ind. Orn. 1. 378. 24. 

 Crested Grosbeak. Lath. Gen. Syn. 3. 125. 23. 



Said to inhabit Ethiopia ; and to be very large: 

 prevailing colour whitish : the forehead crested, 

 and, with the breast and rump, red: tail cinereous; 

 two middle feathers twice as long as the rest : legs 

 red : in the female the crest and breast are white. 



