GROSBEAK. 257 



forming a roundish spot ; upper part of the neck, and the body in 

 general, deep chocolate, marked with many irregular white spots, 

 of different shapes, as far as the back ; all beneath, from the chin, 

 white, with a tinge of yellow from the breast ; wings mostly mixed, 

 or edged with yellow, especially the outer margins of the quills ; 

 tail dusky, edged with pale yellow ; the wings reach on it to about 

 one-third ; legs pale ash. 



Inhabits Senegal : in the collection of Mr. Brogden, and Mr. 

 Bullock. 



66— PARROT GROSBEAK. 



LENGTH three inches and three quarters. Bill stout, a trifle 

 bent, and crimson ; feathers on the crown a little elongated ; plu- 

 mage fine green, paler beneath ; over the eye a streak of crimson ; 

 rump, upper tail coverts, and vent crimson ; on the breast a tinge of 

 the same ; tail rather short, the feathers pointed at the ends ; legs 

 pale brown. 



In the collection of Gen. Davies. Said to have come from Africa. 



67— WAX-BILLED GROSBEAK. 



Loxia Astrild, Ind. Om. i. 392. Lin. i. 303. Gm. Lin. i. 852. Daud. ii. 444. Spa- 

 lowsk. Vog. i. t. 32. Gerin. t. 367.— upper figure. Id. t. 370. f. 1 ? Shaw's 

 Zool. ix. 254. 



Fringilla undulata, Pall. Adumb. 143. 



Senegalus striatus, Bris. iii. 210. t, 10. f. 5. Id. 8vo. i. 365. 



Senegali raye, Buf. iv. 101. pi. 2. f. 2. PL ml. 157. 2. 



Wax-billed Grosbeak, Gen. Syn. iii. 152. Id. Sup. ii. 198. Edw. pi. 179. 354. 



SIZE of a Wren ; length four inches and one-third. Bill deep 

 red; through the eye a red streak; the middle of the breast of 

 the same colour; upper parts of the body brown, the under red- 

 dish grey, crossed every where with blackish lines ; legs brown ; 

 the last cuneiform, crossed with darker brown lines; legs brown. 



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