GROSBEAK. 259 



under parts and rump rose-coloured white, more or less deep ; top of 

 the head, neck, and back, blue, lightest on the head; wings brown ; 

 tail blackish. — Inhabits Senegal. 



68 —WHITE-TAILED GROSBEAK. 



Loxia leucura, Ind. Om. i. 393. Daud. ii. 406. Shaw's Zool. ix. 262. 

 White-tailed Wax-billed Finch, Brown, III. pi. 29. 

 White-tailed Grosbeak, Gen. Syn. iii. 154. 



LENGTH three inches. Bill red ; head and wing coverts 

 cinereous ; back rich yellow ; breast and belly pale yellow ; tail 

 white ; the two outer feathers black ; legs flesh-colour, 



Inhabits Brazil. 



69— BLACK-BELLIED GROSBEAK. 



Loxia melanogastra, Ind. Orn. i. 394. Daud. ii. 407. Shaw's Zool. ix. 289. 



- Afra, Gm. Lin. i. 857. 

 Black-bellied Grosbeak, Gen. Syn. iii. 155. Id. Sup. 153. Brown, III. 58. pi, 24. 



BILL black ; head, sides, and tail coverts rich yellow, mixed 

 in some places with light brown ; chin, breast, and belly black ; 

 wings and tail brownish. 



Inhabits Africa. — Mr. Tunstall had one of these in a cage, for 

 some time. It moulted twice in a year; in the winter it was brown. 



A. — Length near five inches. Bill stout, short, black ; crown 

 above the eye, nape, and back of the neck, pale yellow ; beginning 

 of the back, and rump, sides of the breast, body, and vent pale 

 yellow, communicating across the breast, and there mixed with a 

 little ferruginous; middle of the belly, from the breast, wholly black; 



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