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BRASILIANT GROSBEAK. 

 (Loxia brasiliana.) 



\j.Jusca, subtus rufescens maculis albis nigro annularis, lunula 



nuchce caudaque apice albis. 

 Brown Grosbeak, beneath reddish with white spots annulated 



with black, with a collar round the neck, and the apex of the 



tail white. 

 Loxia brasiliana. Lath. Ind. Orn. 1. 377- 19- 

 Le Grivelin. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 3. 46l. 30. 

 Gros-bec du Bresil. Buff. PI. Enl. 319./. h 

 Brasilian Grosbeak. Lath. Gen. Syn. 3. 122. 18. 



This bird is an inhabitant of Brasil ; and is in 

 length six inches : beak flesh-colour, thick, and 

 short : head and chin red ; neck with a white ring, 

 not meeting in front : breast, belly, and sides, 

 reddish white, with a few white spots, more or less 

 bordered with black : middle of the belly red : 

 back and wing-coverts brown : quills and tail 

 black ; the coverts and secondaries tipped with 

 pale reddish : end of the tail white : rump dusky. 



