GROSBEAK. 245 



The female has all the upper parts cinereous brown ; sides of the 

 head, and under parts reddish white ; quills and tail blackish ; legs 

 flesh-colour. 



Inhabits China, as well as India, known there by the name of 

 Mungul.— The nest rounded like a cup, open at the top, composed 

 of very fine, yellowish fibres ; called by the Bengalese Nucal nowl, 

 or Jungle Sparrow. 



B. — Length four inches and half. Head and neck to the breast 

 black ; the rest of the upper parts greenish ash-colour ; tail the 

 same ; breast, belly, and under tail coverts, bulF white ; the three 

 first quills plain, four or five of the following white at the base ; tail 

 a trifle forked ; bill deep blue ; legs brown. 



In the collection of Lord Stanley. 



46.— WHITE-EARED GROSBEAK. 



Loxia leucotis, White-eared Grosbeak, Salt, Abyss. App. p. lix. 



SIZE of the Reed Bunting; length five inches. The bill pale 

 yellow; head, neck, breast, and belly black; on the ear a large 

 patch of white, passing under the eye; across the nape a bar of 

 white, not quite communicating with the former ; under wing coverts 

 black : the upper, and the back, fine chestnut, some of them with 

 pale margins ; shoulder of the wing white ; rump and upper tail 

 coverts pale ash, approaching to white ; quills and tail brown ; sides 

 over the thighs whitish buff; tail even, or somewhat hollowed out in 

 the middle ; the outer feather pale on the exterior web ; under coverts 

 black ; legs brown. 



The female wants the black head ; the crown fine chestnut, mixed 

 with brown ; sides, and chin to the breast, dusky white and brown 



