222 GROSBEAK. 



of a rich golden yellow ; wing coverts light brown, spotted with 

 black ; breast and belly black ; legs bluish. 



The female is dark brown ; and the male changes plumage twice 

 in a year ; being in the winter of much the same colour as the hen. 

 The late Mr. Tunstall informed me, that he had two or three times 

 been in possession of this species, and once had a pair ; one of the 

 cocks lived nine or ten years ; but he could not find that they had 

 any thing like a song, 



Inhabits Benguela, in Africa. 



15.— LONG-TAILED GROSBEAK. 



Loxia longicauda, hid. Orn. i. 373. Gm. Lin. i. 845. JDaud. ii. 389. Shaw's Zool. 



ix. 284. 

 Le Pere-noire a longue Queue, BuJ". iii. 487. 

 Grosbec noir, Salem. Orn. 278. 

 Moineau du Royaume de Juida, PI. enf. 183. 1. 

 Long-tailed Grosbeak, Gen. Syn, iii. 114. 



SIZE of a House Sparrow, but as the tail is pretty long, it 

 measures seven inches. Bill and legs black ; plumage in general 

 black, with a rufous-yellow bar quite across the back and wing 

 coverts; tail greatly cuneiform, and nearly half the length of the bird. 



Inhabits Africa, particularly Whidah and Senegal. 



16.— CRIMSON-BREASTED GROSBEAK— Pl. lxxxvii.* 



LENGTH five inches. Bill very stout, fine blue, with a gloss 

 of polished steel ; point of the lower mandible, and sides of the tip 

 of the upper red ; the whole face and sides beyond the eye, deep dull 

 red, the feathers short like velvet ; the rest of the upper parts black, 

 curving a trifle forwards on each side of the neck ; beneath, from the 

 chin to the belly, fine crimson ; from thence to the vent transversely 



