GROSBEAK. 239 



the quills, near the edge ; the under part the same, but more inclined 

 to rufous ; the rest as in the first described. 

 Inhabits Angola. 



35— BLACK-BREASTED GROSBEAK. 



Loxia pectoralis, Ind. Orn. i. 390. Daud. ii. 418. Shaw's Zool. ix. 325. 



- Americana, G?n. Lin. i. 863. 

 Black-breasted Grosbeak, Gen. Syn. iii. 148. 



SIZE of the Least Titmouse ; length nearly four inches. Bill 

 black ; plumage above black, beneath white, except a black band 

 across the breast, above which the white passes in a narrow crescent, 

 almost round the neck ; tail rounded, black, the feathers rather sharp 

 at the ends ; legs brown. 



This is in the British Museum ; native place uncertain, supposed 

 to be America. A bird, greatly like this, in the collection of Mr. 

 M'Leay, is four inches and a half long, and answers to the last 

 described ; but the lower part of the back and rump are fine pale 

 slate-colour; tail one inch and three quarters long, even, and the 

 shafts of the feathers continued a trifle beyond the end. 



Inhabits Berbice, called there Karichieva. From the great 

 similarity of plumage, the Black-breasted and Nun Grosbeaks seem 

 to be allied, did not their respective native places forbid the 

 supposition. 



36— COLLARED GROSBEAK. 



Grosbec a Collier, Voy. d'Azara, iii. No. 125. 



LENGTH four inches and a half. Bill pale ; plumage on the 

 upper parts bluish lead-colour, beneath chiefly white ; from the base 

 of the bill a black line, growing broader above the eye; chin black; 



