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ORD. III. GENUS V. GROSBEAK. 



Bill, conical, and very thick at the bafe. 

 Nostrils, fmall, and clofe to the head. 

 Tongue, pointed, and floped at the end. 

 In moft birds of this genus both the mandibles are moveable, by which they 

 are enabled to break hard coated feeds, and fwallow the kernel only. 



SPECIES I. HAWFINCH. 



PI. 66*. 



Loxia Cocothrauftes. Lin. Syfl. I. p. lyy. 

 Le Grofbec. Brif. III. p. 219. 



The head and bill of this bird are very large in proportion to the fhortnefs of 

 the body : the beak is of a pale bluilh flefli colour; the tip black: round the bafe 

 of the bill, and a fpot on the throat, black : top of the head of a bright chefnut 

 colour : back of the neck grey : back and moulders of a dark reddifh brown : 

 breaft and under parts of a purple grey, more dingy towards the vent : rump 

 yellowifh brown : tail very fhort, the feathers of which are tipped with white : 

 the lefs wing coverts white : the middle quill feathers are very Angularly angulated 

 and curled at the edges ; and are of a rich, dark, blue colour : greater quills 

 black, marked with white on the inner webs : legs pale red : the claws of the 

 middle and hind toe very ftrong. 



Thefe birds vifit England only at uncertain times, and are not regular mi- 

 grants. I have obferved them to feed on juniper berries : they likewife eat the 

 kernels of cherries, almonds, and fuch like, the ftones of which they crack with 

 the greateft facility. I was lately informed they have bred near Bath : they are 

 common in Germany, and fome parts of Italy : in fummer they live in woods 

 and mountains ; in winter they come down into the plains : they are faid to build 

 their nefts in the holes of trees, and to lay five or fix eggs, for the figure of which 

 fee PI. XVI. Fig. 2. 



