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BRIMSTONE GROSBEAK. 

 (Loxia sulphurata. ) 



Tu.Jusco olivacea, gutture ventreque luteis, superciliisjiavis. 

 Brown-olive Grosbeak, with the throat and belly yellowish ; 



supercilia yellow. 

 Loxia sulphurata. Lin. Syst. Nat. 1. 305. 30. — Gmel. Syst. Nat. 



1. 856. — Lath. Ind. Orn. 1.385. 45. 

 Coccothraustes Capitis Bonse Spei. Briss. 3. 225. 2. t. l\.f. 1. 

 Brimstone Grosbeak. Lath. Gen. Syn. 3. 15J. 41. 



From the Cape of Good Hope : size of Fringilla 

 Montifringilla : length near six inches : beak stout, 

 above half an inch in length, and horn-coloured : 

 head, neck, breast, and upper parts of the body 

 olive-green : on the eye a yellow line : throat, 

 belly, and vent yellow : quills and tail brown, all 

 but the two middle feathers of the latter, which 

 are entirely olive-green, margined with brown : 

 legs brownish grey. 



