236 GROSBEAK. 



year round, and the last never has a long tail : its slow flight, on 

 account of the long tail, makes it easy to shoot, and when it rains, 

 or in windy weather, it may almost be taken with the hand. 



30.— WHITE-SHOULDERED GROSBEAK. 



LENGTH thirteen inches. Plumage in general dark, but the 

 sides of the head round the eyes, fore part of the neck, and breast 

 white, passing round the neck ; across the breast a dark bar, and 

 below this white ; on the wing coverts, and down the middle of the 

 wing white, or light coloured; tail nine inches, the shortest feather 

 one and a half; legs dusky. 



Inhabits Abyssinia, called there Black and White Hillet, the Abys- 

 sinian name. Among the drawings of Lord Mountnorris is a sketch 

 of one of them, with these remarks ; that there are many Varieties, 

 viz : black, with red on the band of the pinion ; black and yellow on 

 the same ; and the present one, which is black and white ; the tail 

 consists of twelve feathers, of unequal length, forming a perfect fan, 

 when the birds fly, and seems to impede their progress, though they 

 are constantly in pursuit of other birds. It is added, that the nests 

 are built in rushes, very small, and covered over; as appears to be 

 the case with almost all the birds nests in this country. * 



31.— TESTACEOUS GROSBEAK, 



Fringilla CafFra longicauda, Spalowsk. Vog. iii. t.42 — female ? 



LENGTH twelve inches. Bill three quarters of an inch long, 

 with a slight notch at the tip, colour pale yellow; plumage above 

 testaceous brown, inclining to fawn-colour, streaked with darker 

 brown ; wing coverts, and lesser quills marked all round, near the 



* See Valent. Trav. iii. 204. 



