273 GROSBEAK. ' Ciafs IL 



Genus XXI. GROSBEAKS. 



I. The GROSBEAK. 



le Grofbec ou Pinion royal. Ed-w.av. 188. The male. 



Belon av. 373. Le Grofbec. BriJ/cm a<u. iii. 



Coccothrauftes (fteinbeifler) Gef- 219. 



ner a-v. zj6. PI. enl. 09, 100. 



Aldr. a-v. ii. 289. Lo^ia ccccothrauflies. Lin.fyjt. 



Frofone. Olma 37. 299. 



Grofbeak, or Hawfinch. Wil. Stenkneck. Faun. Suec./p. 222, 



orn. 244. Kernbeis,Nufbeiffer. Kram. 365'. 



Raii Jyn. a-v. 85. Brunnich. in append. 



XZharlton i,v. gi. Br> Z00L 1 05. plate U. F. I. 



/ HT V H E birds we defcribe were {hot in Shropjhirei 

 -*- they vifit ns only in hard winters, and are not 

 regularly migrant. They feed on berries; and even 

 on the kernels of the ftrongeft (tones, fuch as thofe of 

 ,cherries and almonds, which they crack with the 

 greateft facility : their bills are well adapted to that 

 work, being remarkably thick and itrong. Mr. Wil- 

 loughby tells us, they are common in Germany and 

 Italy \ that in the fummer they live in woods, and 

 breed in hollow trees, laying five or fix eggs ; but in 

 the winter they come down into the plains. 

 Defer. The hawfinch weighs near two ounces : its length 

 is feven inches; the breadth thirteen : the bill is of a 

 funnel fhape ; ftrong, thick, and of a dull pale pink 

 color ; at the bafe are fome orange colored feathers : 

 the irides are grey : the crown of the head and cheeks 

 of a fine deep bay: the chin black: from the bill 

 to the eyes is a black line : the breaft and whole un- 

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