288 CAPE GROSBEAK. 



and breast, beautiful orange-yellow : upper parts 

 of the body blackish : belly and vent pale yellow: 

 quills and tail blackish, with blue edges : legs red- 

 dish : claws channelled, and sharp. The male and 

 female appear to be very much attached to each 

 other, and are only seen in pairs. 



CAPE GROSBEAK. 

 (Loxia capensis.) 



L. alra, uropygio tectricibusque alarum luteis. 

 Dark-coloured Grosbeak, with the rump and wing-coverts yel- 

 low. 

 Loxia capensis. Lin. Syst. Nat. l. 306. 3Q. — Gmel. Syst. Nat. 



1. 862. — Sparrow. Voy. 1. 1/4. — Lath. Ind. Orn. 1. 373. 7. 

 Fringilla Capitis Borne Spei. Briss. 3. 17 1. 45. t. 16.J. 1. 

 Le Pinson noire et jaune. Biiff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 4. 142. 

 Le Gros-bec de Coromandel. Buff". Hist. Nat. Ois. 3. 456. — 



Buff. PL Enl. 101. 1. 

 Cape Grosbeak. Lath. Gen. Syn. 3. 113. 7- — Lath. Syn. Sup. 



149. 

 B. Jiisca, pennis medio nigris, teclricibus alarum uropygioque 



lute is. 

 Brown, with the feathers black in tbe middle ; wing-coverts and 



rump yellow. 

 Gros-bec tachete du Cap de Bonne Esperance. Buff. Hist. 



Nat. Ois.— 3. 473.— Buff. PI. Enl. 659. 1. 



Larger than a Chaffinch, being above six inches 

 in length : beak stout, and dusky : head, neck, 

 upper part of the back, under parts of the body 

 and tail deep black : feathers on the head short 

 and shining : shoulders and lower part of the back 



