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O R D. III. GEN. V. GROSBEAK. 



S P E. IV. BULFINC H. 



PI. 6 9 . 



Loxia Pyrrhula. Lin. Syft. I. p. 300. 

 Le Bouvreuil. Brif. Orn. III. p. 308. 



The bill of this bird is of a dark horn colour ; the upper mandible hooked, 

 and projects over the under, which is roundifh like a parrot's: top of the head, 

 feathers round the eye, and a fpot under the beak, of a dark blue gloffy black: the 

 hind part of the neck and the back are grey : the throat and breaft are of a beau- 

 tiful flefh -coloured red : belly and vent white, as is the rump : quill-feathers 

 and tail black : wing coverts blue black, the lefs ones tipped with white : legs 

 very fhort and black. 



The female is black on the head, flight-feathers, and tail : the back is afh- 

 coloured brown: breaft and under parts of a reddiih brown: the rump 

 whitiih. 



Thefe birds are troublefome vifitors to our gardens and orchards in the 

 fpring of the year, feeding on the buds of cherries, plumbs, and other fruit- 

 trees. They retire to woods and clofe cover to build their nefts in May. 

 They have no fong in the ftate of nature; but are taught to pipe notes of mufic. 

 This is not particular to the male birds, as I have feen • both fexes brought 

 up from the neft, and the females were equally as perfecl in the tunes taught 

 them as the males. They form a flight neft of twigs laid crofiways, and lay 

 four eggs j for which fee PI. XVI. Fig. 4. 



