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margins, with indented dark lines; from the nostril, through the 

 eye, a dark mark, growing wider behind ; breast and belly very pale 

 ash-colour, streaked, and lined as the upper parts, but more obscure; 

 chin and vent dusky white ; greater quills, from the base to more 

 than half the length, dull rufous, otherwise brown ; the exterior one 

 an inch shorter than the adjoining; tail greatly cuneiform, of twelve 

 feathers, the four middle are seven inches long, the outmost only 

 one and a half; the intermediate ones gradually shortening in pro- 

 portion ; all but the four longest testaceous brown ; the latter much 

 darker, and all of them pale at the ends ; legs stout, brown. 



Inhabits Africa : in Mr. Bullock's Museum ; it has been by some 

 supposed to differ only in sex from the Caffrarian, or White-shoul- 

 dered, but we rather suspect it to be a distinct Species. 



32— FURVOUS GROSBEAK. 



LENGTH ten inches. Bill very stout, one inch, deep brown ; 

 plumage above deep dusky brown ; a trifle mottled with paler on the 

 chin and throat; the greater coverts and quills fringed on the outer 

 edges with clay-colour; sides of the body, under the wings, streaked 

 with white; tail four inches long, much rounded at the end, and the 

 quills reach to above half the length of it; legs stout, dusky black. 



Inhabits Africa : in the collection of Mr. Bullock. 



33— BLACK-HEADED GROSBEAK.— Pl. lxxxviii. 



Loxia erythromelas, Ind. Orn. i. 391. Gm. Lin. i. 859. Daud. ii. 373. Shaw's Zool. 



ix. 243. pl. 45. 

 Black-headed Grosbeak, Gen. Syn. iii. 150. pl. 43. 



LENGTH nine inches. Bill stout, black ; in the middle of the 

 edge of the upper mandible a sharp process, and a notch on the 



