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YELLOW-FRONTED GROSBEAK. 

 (Loxia butyracea.) 



L. virescens, front e superciliis pectore abdomineque favis, cauda 



apice alba. 

 Greenish Grosbeak, with the forehead, a line over the eyes, and 



abdomen yellow ; tail white at the tip. 

 Loxia butyracea. Lin. Si/st. Nat. 1. 304. 28. — Gmel. Si/st. Nat. 



1. 855.— Lath. Ind. Orn. 1. 383. 41. 

 Le Verd brunet. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 4. 182. 

 Verdier du Cap de Bonne Esperance. Buff PI. En/. 341. f. 1. 

 Yellow-fronted Grosbeak. Lath. Gen. Si/n.3. 136. 38. 



The length of the Yellow-fronted Grosbeak is 

 about five inches : beak palish : forehead and tem- 

 ples yellow ; which colour joins a streak above the 

 eyes : prevailing colour above green spotted with 

 brown : beneath entirely yellow : tail blackish, 

 slightly forked, and tipped with white : legs black : 

 female with a whitish vent; all the quills but the 

 outer one dusky, with yellow margins, and pale at 

 the tip : lesser wing-coverts black, with green mar- 

 gins, and the greater ones the same colour, edged 

 with pale brown : native of the Cape of Good 

 Hope. 



