GROSBEAK. 251 



56— JAVA GROSBEAK. 



Loxia oryzivora, Ind. Om. i. 3S0. Lin. i. 302. Aman. ac. iv. 243. Mus. Ad. Fr. i. 



IS. Osb. It. 103. Gm. Lin. \. 8b0. Daud. ii. 393. Spalowsk. i. t. 29. Gerin. 



iii. t. 328. Shaw's Zool. ix. 316. pi. 51. Lin. Trans, xiii. 161. Fringilla. 

 Loxia Javensis, Ind. Om. Sup. xlv. Mus. Carls, t. 89. Shaw's Zool. ix. 300. — young 



bird. 

 Coccothraustes Sinensis cinerea, Br is. iii. 244. t. 11. f. 2. Id. 8vo. i. 377. Klein, 96. 

 Grosbec de la Chine, Oiseau de Ris, Buf. iii. 463. PI. enl. 153. 1. 

 Padda, or Rice Bird, Ed. pi. 41. 42. 

 Sunda Grosbeak, Gen. Syn. Sup. ii. 195.— young bird. 

 Java Grosbeak, Gen. Syn. iii. 129. Id. Sup. 151. 



SIZE of a Sparrow ; length five inches. Bill stout, red ; eyelids 

 the same ; head and throat black ; sides of the head, under the eyes, 

 white ; upper parts of the body, neck, and breast, pale ash-colour ; 

 belly and thighs pale rose-colour ; towards the vent white ; tail 

 black ; legs flesh-colour. 



The female much the same, but the belly is paler ; in some nearly 

 white ; and the white on the cheeks not occupying so much space. 



The young bird does not get the white on the cheeks the first 

 year, that part being mottled brown and white, which I have ob- 

 served in greater or lesser proportions ; those now and then seen 

 without any white on the head, are probably immature. 



Inhabits Java, called by the Javanese, Glate ; also common at the 

 Cape of Good Hope, where it does much damage to the rice grounds; 

 chiefly known by the name of Java Sparrow. It is, no doubt, a 

 Chinese bird also, as we see it figured in Chinese paintings, and the 

 name given to it Hung-tzoy. One of these, with a similar patch of 

 white on the sides of the head, was called in some drawings of the 

 late Mr. Pigou, Fan-wo-cock ; found also in Japan. — M. Daudin 

 mentions one with the throat as well as the cheeks white. At Raja- 

 mahul, in India, it is called Tooty. 



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