FAN-TAILED GROSBEAK. 305 



therefore, I conceive to amount nearly to a proof 

 that the animals added to it at different times, as 

 they found necessary from the increase of the 

 family, or rather of the nation or community. " 



This species also constructs its nests on the 

 Acacia trees and the Aloe Dichotornes, which 

 grows to a very large size. Mr. Barrow notices 

 one that had steps cut in its sides to enable a 

 person to climb up for the nests. 



Supposed to be a variety of L. tatta, by Monsieur 

 Daudin. 



FAN-TAILED GROSBEAK. 

 (Loxia flabellifera. ) 



L. rubro-fusca subtus rubescens, remigibus caudaquejiiscis. 

 Reddish-brown Grosbeak, beneath reddish ; quills and tail 



brownish. 

 Loxia flabellifera. Gmel. Si/st. Nat. 1. 850.r—Lath. Ind. Orn. 1. 



380. 30. 

 La Queue en Eventail de Virginia. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois.3. 463. 



— Buff. PI. Enl. 380. 

 Fan-tailed Grosbeak. Lath. Gen. Syn. 3. 128. 28. 



About five inches in length : beak strong and 

 dusky : prevailing colour of the plumage above 

 reddish-brown, with the rump paler: below rather 

 inclined to red : quills, tail, and legs dusky : fe- 

 male with the breast and belly grey. Called Fa?i- 

 tails in Virginia, from the circumstance of their 

 carrying the tail expanded. 



v. ix. p. ii. 21 



