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COWRY GROSBEAK. 

 (Loxia punctularia.) 



L. ferruginea, abdomine nigro albo maculato. 



Ferruginous Grosbeak, with the abdomen white, spotted with 



black. 

 Loxia punctularia. Lin. Syst. Nat. 1. 302. 8. — Gmel. Syst. Nat. 



1. 851. — Lath. Ind. Orn. 1. 386. 54. 

 Coccothraustes javensis naevia. Briss. 3. 239. 9- *■ 13. J^ 2. 

 Gros-bec tachete de Java. -Bw/T. Hist. Nat. Ois. 3. 408. — Buff. 



PL Enl. 139. 1. 

 Cowry Grosbeak. Edwards. 40. — Lath. Gen. Syn. 3. 142. 50. 



Four inches and a quarter in length : beak and 

 legs dusky : front and sides of the head, throat, 

 and fore-part of the neck, chesnut : back of the 

 head, and neck, back, upper tail-coverts, and rump, 

 rufous brown; the feathers of the latter edged with 

 grey : breast and sides marked with tear-shaped 

 white spots, and dusky : belly in the middle, and 

 vent, white ; the former with a few black spots : 

 native of Java. 



