240 GROSBEAK. 



from the angle of the mouth a white streak, passing to the white on 

 the throat ; beneath this another patch of black, on the fore part of 

 the neck ; quills and tail brown. 



In the female the colours are more dull. 



Inhabits Paraguay, in South America, chiefly among the bushes, 

 in moist places ; said to make the nest of small roots and twigs, on 

 a bush, and to lay about three brown eggs, dotted with violet ; the 

 males and females often seen in separate flocks, and do not separate 

 till the time of incubation ; is said to have an agreeable song. 



37.— RUFOUS-CROWNED GROSBEAK. 



Loxia ochrocephala, Hand. Orn. ii. 427. 



SIZE of our Greenfinch ; length five inches and a half. Bill 

 dusky ; base of the lower mandible pale grey ; crown and hindhead 



brownish rufous ; throat and neck before olive green ; the upper part 

 of the body and prime coverts brown, with yellowish edges ; body 

 beneath yellowish, very pale on the belly ; quills dusky, with a 

 small yellow spot in the middle of the third, fourth, fifth, and sixth ; 

 tail rather forked, dusky, end ash-colour; legs pale brown. 



This was brought from Cochin China into Holland alive ; had a 

 note somewhat like that of the Green Grosbeak, and at times an 

 unmeaning kind of twittering. 



38.— AFRICAN GROSBEAK. 



Loxia Africana, Ind. Orn. i. 384. Gm. Lin. i. 856. Daud. ii. 429. 



Verdier sans Vert, Buf. iv. 186, 



African Grosbeak, Gen. Syn. iii. 137. Shaw's Zool. ix. 272. 



LENGTH about six inches. Plumage above greenish brown and 

 grey mixed, inclining to rufous on the rump; the upper wing coverts 

 rufous; second quills edged with the same; greater quills, and side 



