260 GROSBEAK. 



tail very short, and half hid by the coverts : the wings reach only 

 to the base. — Inhabits Senegal. In the collection of Lord Stanley. 



70.— RADIATED GROSBEAK. 



Loxia lineata, Ind. Orn. i. 395. Gm. Lin. i. 858. Daud. ii. 408. Shaw's Zool. ix. 281. 

 Radiated Grosbeak, Gen. Syn.'m. 156. 



SIZE of a Linnet; length four inches. Bill stout, thick, white; 

 head, neck, breast, lesser wing coverts, and tail black ; second quills, 

 sides of the body, and base half of the prime ones, striated black and 

 white, the end half of the latter black; belly and vent white; legs 

 dusky. — In the collection of the late Duchess Dowager of Portland. 

 From Africa. 



71— PEARLED GROSBEAK. 



Loxia perlata, Ind. Orn. i. 395. Gm. Lin. i. 858. Daud. ii. 408. 

 Grosbec perle, Salem. Orn. 278. 

 Peai - led Grosbeak, Gen. Syn. iii; 156. 



SIZE of a Wren. Head, and upper parts of the body black; 

 beneath brown, with an agreeable mixture of black and white towards 

 the rump and tail. 



Inhabits Africa, common at Whidah ; lives on grain, and has a 

 pleasant note : thought to be allied to the Radiated Grosbeak. 



72— FASCIATED GROSBEAK. 



Loxia fasciata, Ind. Orn. i. 395. Gm. Lin. i. 859. Shaw's Zool. ix. 328. 

 — —- jugularis, Nat. Misc. ii. pi. 56. Gerin. t. 358. 1 — female. 

 Fasciated Grosbeak, Gen. Syn. iii. 156. Id. Sup. p. 154. Id. Sup.n. 195. Brown, 

 111.64. pi. 27. 



LENGTH five inches and a half. Bill bluish grey ; top of the 

 head grey, marked with numerous, transverse, undulated brown 



