MARYGOLD GROSBEAK. 287 



verts white : quills brown, margined with white : 

 tail sometimes more than twice the length of the 

 body : legs grey : female entirely grey. 



This bird inhabits the Cape of Good Hope : it 

 makes rather a curious nest, which is composed of 

 grass, fastened between two reeds, and globular, 

 with the entrance through a long cylinder, and 

 near the water. Its flight is very slow, so that it 

 may be easily shot, and in bad weather it is rea- 

 dily taken with the hand : the male is said to 

 change to a grey colour in the winter. 



MARYGOLD GROSBEAK. 

 (Loxia bonariensis.) 



L. nigricans, subtus Jiavescens, capite colloque superiore cceruleis, 



jugulo pectoreque fulvis. 

 Blackish Grosbeak, beneath yellowish, with the head and upper 



part of the neck blue ; jugulam and breast brownish. 

 Loxia bonariensis. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 850. — Lath. Lnd. Orn. 



1. 385.47. 

 Le noir-souci. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois.4. 150. 

 Marygold Grosbeak. Lath. Gen. Si/n. 3. 139. 43. 



Frequents gardens and cultivated places at 

 Buenos Ayres in September, feeding on grass and 

 seeds : it is seven inches in length : beak black- 

 ish, short, strong, and convex, the under man- 

 dible palest ; nostrils round, placed near the base 

 of the beak, and perforated : head, and upper part 

 of the neck, blue : throat, fore-part of the neck, 



