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SPOTTED GROSBEAK. 

 (Loxia maculata.) 



L. obscure fusca alio maculata, subhis albida maculis sidtfuscis, 



super ciliis pailidis, rectribus duabus extimis apice albo maculatis. 

 Dull fuscous Grosbeak spotted with white ; beneath white with 



subfuscous spots; supercilia pale; the two outer tail-feathers 



white at the tip and spotted. 

 Loxia maculata. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 861. — Lath. Ind. Orn. 1. 



379- 26. 

 Spotted Grosbeak. Lath. Gen. Syn. 3. 126. 25. — Pen. Arct. 



Zool. 2. 213. 



Supposed to inhabit North America: beak pale, 

 rather stout, with a dusky tip ; plumage on the 

 upper parts dusky ; each feather spotted with 

 white at the end, except those of the quills and 

 greater coverts : over the eye a pale streak : un- 

 der parts dirty white, marked with dusky streaks : 

 the outer web of the most exterior tail-feather 

 white nearly to the tip, with a white spot close to 

 the tip of the inner web ; the next feather nearly 

 similar : quills and tail fringed with dusky white 

 on the outer web : legs pale brown. 



