GROSBEAK. 247 



before blackish ; beneath from the breast white ; quills and tail 

 blackish brown ; legs blackish. 



Inhabits the Isle of Bourbon ; also Java, where it is called Prit. 



49.— COWRY GROSBEAK. 



Loxia punctularia, Lid. Om. 386. Lin. i. 302. Gin. Lin. i. 851. Share's Zool. ix. 330. 



Passer Sinensis ferrugineus, Klein, Av. p. S9. 6. Id. 90. 18. 



Fringilla punctularia, Lin. Trans, xiii. p. 161. 



Coccothraustes Javensis nsevia, Bris. iii. 239. t. 13. 2. Id. 8vo. i. 275. 



Grosbec tachete de Java, Buf. iii. 468. PL enl. 139. 1. 



Chinese Sparrow, Alb. ii. pi. 54. — female. 



Cowry Grosbeak, Gen. Syn. iii. 142. Edw. pi. 40. 



LENGTH four inches and a half. Bill and legs dusky ; fore 

 part of the head, sides, throat, and neck before, chestnut; hindhead, 

 and the rest of the upper parts rufous brown; rump margined with 

 grey; breast and sides dusky, marked with cordated white spots ; 

 middle of the belly, and vent white. 



Inhabits the Island of Java, and called Pekking ; the three last 

 described, if not the one preceding, seem related, either as Varieties 

 or sexual differences. 



A. — In the collection of General Hardwicke is one, deep red 

 brown above, beneath to the breast much paler; rump spotted dark 

 brown ; breast marked with rufous brown ; below this, the belly and 

 thighs have cordated spots, each feather being white, marked with 

 a semicircle of brown ; vent and thighs pale ash, the latter a little 

 barred with darker ; tail brown ; bill and legs pale blue. — In one 

 sex the head and sides have several darker, short marks; in the 

 other plain. 



Inhabits India; named Muneeah. 



