230 GROSBEAK. 



This inhabits the Hottentot's Country, in the neighbourhood of 

 the Cape of Good Hope ; also India ; as I find it, with very little 

 difference, among the drawings of Lady Impey. It is known in the 

 last place by the name of Totty. Supposed by Daudin to differ from 

 the last only in age or sex. 



24.— BENGAL GROSBEAK. 



Loxia Bengalensis, Ind. Oni. i. 382. Lin. i. 305. Gm. Lin. i. 857. Klein, 88. Daud. 



ii. 400. Shaiv's Zool. ix. 258. 

 Rubicilla Bengalensis, Gerin. Orn. iii. t. 323. 1. 

 Passer Bengalensis, Bris. iii. 95. Id. 8vo. i. 37C. 

 L'Orchef, Grosbec des Indes, Bvf. iii. 466. PL enl. 393. f. 2. 

 Yellow-headed Indian Sparrow, Edw. pi. 189. 

 Bengal Grosbeak, Gen. Syn. iii. 133. Alb. ii. pi. 52. 



THIS is rather larger than the House Sparrow ; length five 

 inches and a half. Bill flesh-colour ; irides whitish ; top of the head 

 of a golden yellow; the upper parts of the body brown, the feathers 

 edged with a paler colour; sides of the head, and under parts rufous 

 white; sides streaked with brown ; across the breast a brown band, 

 uniting above with the upper parts ; legs pale yellow, claws grey. 



The female is like the male, but less brilliant in colour. 



Inhabits Bengal. 



Among the drawings of General Hardwicke are two figures of 

 the nest, belonging to the above bird, taken with four young, and 

 two eggs in it, Aug. 23, 1796. It consists of fibres, and is attached 

 to reeds, or other grassy substance, with long narrow leaves. The 

 shape roundish, about six inches in diameter, with a hole of entrance 

 on one side ; from the bottom is attached a cylindrical tube, a foot 

 in length, and full two inches wide; so that the total length is 

 eighteen or twenty inches. Nests of a similar form are in various 

 Museums, but I have not observed in them a hole on the side, the 

 entrance being from the bottom of the tube. 



