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BROWN GROSBEAK. 

 (Loxia fusca.) 



\j.fusca, subtus albida, remigibus a lertia ad nonam basi omnino 



albis. 

 Brown Grosbeak, beneath whitish, with the quills from the third 



to the ninth black at the base. 

 Loxia fusca. Lin. Syst. Nat. 1. 307- 46. — Amcen. Acad. 4. 245. 



19. — Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 805. — Lath. Ind. 1. 389- 64. 

 Brown Grosbeak. Lath. Gen. Syn. 3. 14/. 53. 



Inhabits Africa and Bengal. Size of the Ca- 

 nary bird : beak short, thick, and lead-coloured : 

 head and upper parts of the body brown : under 

 parts pale ash-colour : quills dusky black ; the 

 eight middle ones white at the base : vent pure 

 white : tail dusky black, tipped with palish : legs 

 pale, 



