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PARROT-BILLED GROSBEAK. 

 (Loxia psittacea.) 



L. olivaceofasca, capite collogue Jlavis, mandibula superiore 



adunca, brferiore subtruncata. 

 Olive-brown Grosbeak, with the head and neck yellow ; the 



upper mandible bent downwards, and the under one slightly 



truncate. 

 Loxia psittacea. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 844. — Lath. Ind. Orn. 1. 



371. 3. 

 Parrot-billed Grosbeak. Lath. Gen. Syn. 3. 108. 3. t. 42. 



The beak of this bird is very like that of a Par- 

 rot, the under mandible being much shorter than 

 the upper, pale, but dusky at the tip ; head and 

 part of the neck in the male yellow : the rest of 

 the plumage greenish olive-brown, paler beneath : 

 edges of the quills and tail yellowish : legs pale 

 brown : female similar to the male, except the 

 head, which only differs in colour from the other 

 parts of the body in having the sides spotted with 

 yellowish grey : tail in both sexes even at the end. 

 Inhabits the Sandwich Islands. 



