GROSBEAK. 231 



One of the above birds, in the same drawings, had the whole top 

 of the head, and nape even with the eyes, fine yellow ; the rest of 

 the head and neck bright red brown ; back and wings the same, but 

 paler. 



25— PHILIPPINE GROSBEAK. 



Loxia Philippina, Ind. Om. i. 380. Lin. i. 305. Gm. Lin. i. 860. Daud. ii. 394. 



Shaw's Zool. ix. 314. 

 Coccothraustes Philippensis, Bris. iii. 232. t. xii. f. 1. — male. Id. t. 18. f. 1. 2.— the 



nest. Id. 8vo. i. 373. 

 Fringilla Philippina, Lin. Trans, xiii. p. 160. 



Baya Berbera, &c. Asiat. Research.u. 109. Bartol. Voy. p. 226.- 

 Toucnam-courvi, Buf. iii. 465. PL enl. 135. 2. — male. 

 Tisserin, Tern. Man. Ed. ii. Anal. p. lxx. 

 Philippine Grosbeak, Gen. Syn. iii. 129. Id. Sup. ii. 193. 



SIZE of a House Sparrow ; length five inches and a quarter. 

 Bill very stout, brown ; round the base of it, sides under the eyes 

 and chin dark brown ; top of the head above the eyes, neck behind, 

 back, and scapulars, fore part of the neck, and breast, yellow ; the 

 feathers at the hind part of the neck, and beginning of the back, 

 brown in the middle; those of the lower part of the back brown, with 

 white margins; belly and vent white ; quills and tail brown, edged 

 with rufous; legs yellowish. 



The female is brown above, the feathers margined with rufous ; 

 rump rufous; under parts pale rufous; quills, tail, and legs, as in 

 the male 



Inhabits the Philippine Islands, and noted for making a most 

 curious nest, like a long cylinder, swelling out, in a globose form, 

 in the middle ; it is composed of the fine fibres of leaves, &c. and 

 fastened to the extreme branch of a tree; the entrance beneath, 

 ascending the cylinder as far as the globular cavity, where the true 



* See a representation of these nests, or which appears not to be greatly differing, in 

 Wood's Zoography, Vol. i. pi. 14. 



