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MALACCA GROSBEAK. 

 (Loxia malacca.) 



L. Jerruginea, capite abdomineque riigris, rostro cesruleo. 

 Ferruginous Grosbeak, with the head and abdomen black ; beak 



blueish. 

 Loxia malacca. Lin. Syst. Nat. 1. 302. J 6. — Gmel. Syst. Nat. 



1. 851. — Lath. Ind. Om. 1. 385. 5J. 

 Coccothraustes javensis. Briss. 3. 237- 8. t. \3.f. 1. 

 Le Jacobin. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 3. 46S.—Biif. PL Enl. 



139. 8. 3. 

 White-breasted Indian Sparrow. Edivards. 3. 55. 

 Malacca Grosbeak. Lath. Gen. Syn. 3. 140. 47. 

 /3. capite collogue inferiore nigris. 

 With the head and lower part of the neck black. 

 Loxia malacca /3. Lin. Syst. Nat. 1. 302. 16. 

 Coccothraustes sinensis. Briss. 3. 257- 7- 

 Chinese Sparrow. Edivards. 43. 

 Malacca Grosbeak, var. Lath. Gen. Syn. 3. 141. a. — Lath. 



Sup. 152. 



The Malacca Grosbeak is in length six inches 

 and a quarter : beak blueish ash : irides, head, 

 neck, middle of the belly, thighs, and under tail- 

 coverts, black: breast, and sides of the abdomen, 

 white : back, wings, and tail, chesnut : legs brown : 

 female not so bright, and with the thighs chesnut. 



The Chinese Sparrows of Edwards appear to be- 

 long to this species, but if so, they are very di- 

 stinct varieties : the male is of the same size ; with 

 the head, throat, and fore-part of the neck, black ; 

 the rest of the plumage chesnut : beak and legs 

 cinereous : the female has the top of the head, and 



