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BROWN-CHEEKED GROSBEAK. 

 (Loxia canora.) 



L. virescens subtus cinerea, genisjiiscis flavo circumdatis . 

 Greenish Grosbeak, beneath ash-coloured, with the cheeks 



brown, surrounded with yellow. 

 Loxia canora. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 858. — Lath. Lnd. Orn. 1. 



394. 84. 

 Brown-cheeked Grosbeak. Broivn. III. 56. t. 24. — Lath. Gen. 



Syn. 3. 155. 77. — Lath. Syn. Sup. 154. 



This bird has a very pleasant and agreeable soft 

 note : it is called Tomtelio in Mexico ; and is the 

 size of a Titmouse, with the beak stout, thick, and 

 dusky : cheeks brown, margined with a broad yel- 

 low band extending from beyond the ears to the 

 throat: breast and abdomen cinereous : legs whitish : 

 the rest of the plumage pale dirty green. 



