226 GROSBEAK. 



19.— PRASINE GROSBEAK. 



Loxia prasina, Ind. Orn. i. 396. 91. Mus. Carls, t. 72. 73. Shaw's Zool. ix. 267. 

 Bouvreuil prasin, Daud. ii. 422. 

 Prasine Grosbeak, Gen. Syn. Sup. ii. 195. 



SIZE of a Siskin. Bill black ; general colour of the plumage 

 olive green, beneath yellowish grey ; rump red, also a red feather or 

 two on the belly ; tail rounded, black ; the two middle feathers red 

 above, the others the same on the outer margins ; legs yellow. 



The female is olive brown, beneath yellow grey; rump dull red ; 

 quills cinereous ; eight of the second ones whitish on the anterior 

 margins and tips; tail feathers black, tipped with white; bill black. 



Inhabits the Island of Java : found there in the rice fields. 



A.— Fringilla prasina, Lin. Trans, xiii. p. 161.— Horsfield. 



Length five inches and a half. General colour olive green ; the 

 forehead, round the eyes, and chin azure blue; quills and tail dusky 

 black ; the rump and belly crimson ; breast, lower belly, and hypo- 

 chondres ferruginous. 



Inhabits Java; found principally in the eastern parts of the 

 island. The two middle tail feathers extend about half an inch 

 beyond the others ; the bill is extremely black and shining ; the feet 

 reddish : in several specimens the upper parts appear of a greenish 

 olive, the lower uniform dusky grey, inclining to ferruginous : and 

 from birds in this state the description in the Carlsonian Museum has 

 probably been made. It is called by the Javanese, Binglis. 



