250 GROSBEAK. 



Fringilla rubra minor, Bris. iii. 164. Id. 8vo. i. 352. 



— — — — fusca Americana, Klein, Av. 98. 



Brunor, Bouvreuil a ventre roux, Buf. iv. 137. PI. enl. 319. 2. 



Little brown Bulfinch, Edw. pi. &3. 1. 



Orange-bellied Grosbeak, Gen. Syn. iii. 157. 



THIS is scarcely larger than a Wren ; length three inches and 

 a quarter. Bill short, thick, and whitish ; plumage above brown, 

 beneath dull, reddish orange; legs brown. 



Inhabits India. 



A. — Size of the other. Bill black ; upper parts of the body pale 

 brown, the under white, inclined to ferruginous on the chin ; tail 

 rounded ; legs bluish. — I observed this among some Chinese draw- 

 ings — it probably differs in sex. 



65.— GREY-NECKED GROSBEAK. 



Loxia melanura, Ind. Orn. i. 389. Gin. Lin. i. 853. Daud. ii. 385. Shaw's Zool. 



ix. 312. 

 Le Grosbeak dela Chine, Son. Voy. hid. ii. 199. 

 Grey-necked Grosbeak, Gen. Syn. iii. 145. 



SIZE of the Hawfinch. Bill, irides, and legs, yellow; head 

 black ; neck behind dirty brown, before grey ; wing coverts bluish 

 black, about the middle a white spot; the second quills black, 

 bordered with white on the inner webs ; prime quills black for two- 

 thirds, from thence to the ends white ; rump grey ; tail black ; belly 

 pale rufous ; vent white. 



In the female the head is grey ; the quills black, bordered with 

 white ; in other respects like the male. 



Inhabits China. 



