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WHITE-TAILED GROSBEAK. 

 (Loxia leucoura.) 



L. cinerea, dorso luteo, pectore abdominequejlavescentibus, Cauda 



alba, rectricibus duabus extimis nigris. 

 Cinereous Grosbeak with the back yellow, breast and abdomen 



yellowish ; tail white, and the two outward tail-feathers black. 

 Loxia leucoura. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 852. — Lath. Ind. Orn. 1. 



393. 76. 

 White-tailed Wax-bill Finch. Brown. III. t. 29. 

 White-tailed Grosbeak. Lath. Gen. Syn. 3. 154. 72. 



In length three inches : beak of a beautiful 

 red, similar in colour to sealing-wax : head ci- 

 nereous : back fine yellow : breast and belly pale 

 yellow : wing-coverts ash-coloured : tail white, the 

 two outer feathers black : legs flesh-colour. In- 

 habits Brasil. 



MALABAR GROSBEAK. 

 (Loxia malabarica.) 



L. cinerea, remigibus rcctricibusque nigris, gula crissoque albis. 

 Cinereous Grosbeak, with the quills and tail-feathers black ; 



throat and vent white. 

 Loxia malabarica. Lin. Syst. Nat. 1. 305. 53.— -Gmel. Syst. 



Nat. 1. 857.— Lath. Ind. Orn. 1.394. 81. 

 Malabar Grosbeak. Lath. Gen. Syn. 3. 154. ?4. 



This bird is of the size and shape of a Titmouse : 

 the beak is black : throat white : body cinereous: 

 vent whitish : quills and tail black : found in the 

 East Indies and Malabar. 



