GROSBEAK. 223 



barred black and white; tail cuneiform, the middle feathers two 

 inches and a quarter long, the outer less than two ; wings and tail 

 black, the former reach just beyond the base; legs brown. 



The female has the head feathers short, and velvety as in the 

 male, but black ; the chin, throat, breast, and sides under the wings 

 crimson ; but the belly and vent wholly black ; wings and tail as in 

 the male. 



Inhabits Africa. The male I found in the collection of Mr. 

 Dent ; the female in that of Mr. H. Brogden. 



17.— GRENADIER GROSBEAK. 



Loxia Ovix, Ind. Orn. i. 376. Lin. Mant.1771. p. 527. Gm. Lin. i. 869. Nat. Misc. 



pi. 240. Gerin.in. pi. 323. Daud. ii. 377. Spalowsk. Vog. i. t.31 ? Shaw's Zool. 



ix. 240. pi. 44. 

 Emberiza Orix, Lin. i. 309. 



Cardinalis Cap. B. Spei, Bris.'m. 114. t. 6. f. 3. Id. 8vo. i. 378. 

 Cardinal du Cap de B. E. Buf. iii. 496. PL enl. 6. f, 2— male. Id. 134. 1— female. 

 Cape Finch, Kolb. Cap. ii. (Engl. Ed.) 153. 

 Grenadier Grosbeak, Gen. Syn. iii. 120. Id. Sup. ii. 191 . Edw. pi. 178. Phil. Trans. 



66. p. 278. Mill. III. 1. 1. 



LENGTH five inches ; breadth eight. Bill black ; forehead, 

 sides of the head, and chin black ; breast and belly the same ; wings 

 and tail brown, with paler edges ; the rest of the body a beautiful 

 red ; knees pale brown ; legs pale. Some birds want the black on 

 the chin, and are supposed to be females. 



Inhabits the Isle of St. Helena, and particularly the Cape of Good 

 Hope, where it frequents watery places, especially where reeds grow, 

 among which it is supposed to make the nest, and which, according 

 to Kolben, is of a peculiar construction, composed of twigs, closely 

 interwoven with cotton, divided into two compartments, with one 

 entrance, and is so compact, that it is not to be penetrated by the 

 weather : he adds, that the bird is scarlet in summer, and in winter 



