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WHITE-HEADED GROSBEAK. 

 (Loxia Maja. ) 



Jj.Jusca, capite alio. 



Brown Grosbeak, with the head white. 



Loxia Maia. Lin. Syst. Nat. 1. 301. 11. — Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 



849.— Lath. Ind. Orn. 1. 3gi. 72. 

 Le Maia de la Chine. Briss. 3. 212. 65. t. g.f. 2. — Buff. PL 



Enl. \og.f. 1. 

 Maian. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 4. 107. t. 3. lower figure. 

 Malacca Grosbeak. Edwards. 306. f. 1. 

 White-headed Grosbeak. Lath. Gen. Syn. 3. 151. 68. 



This bird comes from Malacca and China. It 

 is four inches in length : beak grey brown, palest 

 beneath : head and neck dirty white : breast pale 

 brown : upper parts of the body, wings, and tail 

 chesnut brown : second and fourth quill -feathers 

 white : belly and vent blackish : legs grey. Buffon 

 describes the breast and belly both black. 



