248 GROSBEAK. 



50.- SPOTTED-SIDED GROSBEAK.— Pl. lxxxix. 



Fringilla leucocephala, Ind. Orn. Sup. xlviii. Shaw's Zool. ix. 493. 

 Spotted Grosbeak, Lewin, N. Holl. Birds, pl. ix. 

 White-headed Finch, Gen. Syn. Sup. ii. 210. pl. 132. 



SIZE of a Bulfinch ; length four inches and a half. Bill stout, 

 crimson ; head, neck, and. under parts, from the breast, white ; 

 marked on the sides, and under the wings, with a long patch of black, 

 charged with numerous white spots ; across the breast a broad bar of 

 black, communicating with the black on the sides ; before the eye a 

 black, curved mark ; tail short, black ; upper part of the back and 

 wings rufous brown ; the lower and rump crimson ; legs pale brown. 



Inhabits New South Wales. — General Davies. One, supposed to 

 differ in sex, had the head pale ash-colour, instead of white, and is 

 figured by Mr. Lewin under the name of Spotted Grosbeak : he tells 

 us, that it is met with in small flights, in gardens, and cultivated 

 grounds, in the winter season. 



In the collection of Lord Stanley is one of the females, and like 

 the last described, but the chin and throat are white, with ten or 

 twelve black feathers on the sides, having an oval large spot of white 

 near the ends, hollowed out on one side. 



In Mr. Harrison's possession was a specimen of the same, but 

 instead of the oval white spots on the sides, marked with stripes of 

 white on the black ground. 



51.— EASTERN GROSBEAK. 



Loxia undulata, Ind. Orn. i. 387. Daud. ii. 416. 

 Eastern Grosbeak, Gen. Syn. Slip. 155. 



SIZE of the Cowry Grosbeak ; length six inches. Bill dusky, 

 stout, short, as in the Bulfinch ; head, neck, and back, red brown ; 



