210 GROSBEAK. 



makes a nest of grass, mud, and feathers, generally about half way 

 up on a pine tree; and lays five white eggs, marked with yellowish 

 spots ; the young fly about the end of June ; it stays till November, 

 after which it disappears, and is supposed to retire inland : is known 

 there by the name of Asitchou Achashish. 



This species is found as far South as Georgia ; but, according to 

 Mr. Abbot, is there very rare. One has also been shot in Burke 

 Country. The males vary in colour; one having the head, neck, 

 and back, full, but dull, crimson. A female seen at Mr. Hutchins's, 

 had much of the markings above described, but the plumage greatly 

 inclined to brown ; chin dusky white, mottled with brown ; under 

 parts yellow and brown mixed ; rump yellow. 



We have been informed that this species is found in Scotland, 

 and an account is given in the Linncean Transactions,* of a female 

 being shot within two miles of Belfast, in Ireland, in the month of 

 January, 1802. 



4— PARROT-BILLED GROSBEAK.— Pl. lxxxvii. 



Loxia Psittacea, Ind. Orn.'i. 371. Gm. Lin.'i. 844. Daud.'n. 374. Gen. Zool. ix. 268. 

 Parroquet, Cook's last Voy. iii. 119. 

 Psittasin, Tern. Man. Ed. ii. Anal. p. lxx. 

 Parrot-billed Grosbeak, Gen. Syn. iii. 108. pl. 42. 



SIZE of a Hedge Sparrow ; length seven inches. Bill pale, with 

 a dusky tip, fashioned much like that of the Parrot, or Coly, the 

 upper mandible being elongated, and curved at the point, the under 

 short, and truncated; the head and neck, in the male, are yellow; 

 the rest of the plumage greenish, olive brown, paler beneath ; the 

 edges of the quills, and tail feathers yellowish ; the latter even at 

 the end ; legs pale brown. 



The female differs but little from the male, except in the head 

 and neck, which are the same in colour with the rest of the plumage, 



* Vol. vii. p. 309. 



