GROSBEAK. 243 



B. — Pincon de la Chine, PI. enl. 157. 3. 



In this the bill and legs are yellowish ; plumage in general olive 

 green, beneath paler ; sides under the wings, vent, and under tail 

 coverts, yellow; wing coverts dusky black, margined with paler; the 

 base half of the quills white outwardly, the rest of the length brown ; 

 a few of the outer ones white at the ends; tail olive green, a trifle 

 forked ; the wings reach to about half the length of it. 



Said to inhabit China. 



43.— YELLOW GROSBEAK. 



Loxia flavicans, Ind. Om. i. 385. Lin. i. 302. Apian. Ac. iv. 244. Gm. Lin. i. 850. 



Shaw's Zool. ix. 290. 

 Yellow Grosbeak, Gen. Syn. iii. 139. 



SIZE of the Canary Finch. Bill short and thick, the base 

 extending far back on the forehead ; head, neck, breast, belly, and 

 vent yellow ; top of the head the same, but paler ; back, wings, and 

 tail greenish yellow ; bend of the wing deep yellow ; quills and tail 

 margined with the same ; legs pale ; hind claw strongest. 



Inhabits Asia. 



A. — Bill pale, almost white; plumage in general yellow; face, 

 fore part of the head, and as far as the breast darker, inclining to 

 rufous; crown paler; back of the neck dusky, the feathers deeply 

 margined with yellow ; rump yellow ; the wings and tail pale dusky 

 ash, lighter on the margins of the feathers ; tail a trifle hollowed out 

 in the middle; legs pale brown. 



Inhabits India, found on the Coast of Coromandel. — Sir John 

 Anstruther. 



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