220 GROSBEAK. 



the neck and breast, deep crimson, marked with triangular spots of 

 white; belly and vent rose-colour, undulated with whitish; thighs 

 hoary; base of all the feathers ash-colour, giving an undulated 

 appearance throughout; coverts and quills brown, edged with rose- 

 colour; tail three inches and a half long, black, the outer feather 

 margined with whitish, the rest with rose-colour; wings shorter than 

 the tail by one inch ; legs black. The female differs in having the 

 colours more dull. 



Inhabits the coldest part of the Caucasian Mountains, especially 

 in the gravelly hollows, and lives on sea buckthorn * berries, which, 

 by swallowing whole, they often propagate; frequently seen in vast 

 flocks ; the note not unlike that of a Bulfinch. 



12.— CAPE GROSBEAK. 



Loxia Capensis, Ind. Or?i. i. 373. Lin. i. 306. Gm. Lin. i. 862. Sparm. Voy. i. 174. 



Spalowsk. i. t. 30. Daud. ii. 387. Shaw's Zool. ix. 288. 

 Loxia atra uropygio flavo, N. C. Petr. xi. 438. t. 16. 9. 

 Fringilla Cap. B. Spei, Bris. iii. 171. t. 16. f. 1. Id. Svo.i. 354. 

 Pinson noir et jaune, Buf. iv. 142. 



Grosbec de Cororaandel, Buf. iii. 456. PI. enl. 101. 1. 

 Cape Grosbeak, Gen. Syn. iii. 113. Id. Sup. 149. 



SIZE of the Chaffinch ; length six inches. Bill stout, and legs 

 dusky; head, neck, upper part of the back, body beneath, and tail 

 deep black, the feathers of the head short, and like plush or velvet; 

 shoulders, lower part of the back, and rump fine deep yellow ; the 

 rest of the wing reddish brown, edged with grey, and the greater 

 quills with yellow; knees pale brown, I have observed in some 

 specimens that the whole of the back was yellow, -f 



Inhabits the Coast of Coromandel, and from thence to the Cape 

 of Good Hope : it frequently flies in great flocks, and causes much 



* Hippophae rhamnoides.— Lin. 



t Dr. Sparrman says, that the yellow changes to a blood-red hue, at the approach of 

 the summer. 



