BLACK-BELLIED GROSBEAK. 289 



and rump bright yellow : greater quills, second- 

 aries, and coverts, reddish brown ; the former 

 edged with yellow, the two latter with grey : lower 

 part of the thighs pale brown: legs dusky. 



Buffo n describes and figures a variety, or pro- 

 bably the female, or young bird, which is brownish 

 above, with each feather spotted in the middle with 

 black : sides of the head, wing-coverts, and under 

 parts of the body dirty white, marked with black: 

 shoulders and rump pale yellow : quills and tail 

 black, the former with yellow edges, the latter with 

 grey : beak and legs pale. Inhabits the Cape of 

 Good Hope and coast of Coromandel. 



BLACK-BELLIED GROSBEAK. 

 (Loxia melanogastra.) 



L. luteajusco contaminata, gula pectore abdomineque nigris, alls 



caudaquejiiscis. 

 Yellow Grosbeak sprinkled with brown, with the throat, breast, 



and abdomen black ; wings and tail brown. 

 Loxia afra. Gm'el. Syst. Nat. 1. 857. 

 Loxia melanogastra. Lath. Ind. Orn. 1. 3Q4. 82. 

 Black-bellied Grosbeak. Broivn. III. 58. t. 24. — Lath. Gen. Syn. 



3. 155. — Lath. Syn. Sup. 153. 



The beak of this bird is black : head, sides, and 

 tail-coverts, fine yellow, sprinkled in many parts 

 with light brown : chin, breast, and belly, black : 

 wings and tail brown : in the winter it changes 

 entirely to a light brown. Inhabits Africa. 



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