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bars ; the rest of the upper parts cinnamon brown ; near the tip 

 of each feather a bent, narrow, black bar ; the quills black, but 

 darker, and the ends of the secondaries tipped with pale cinnamon ; 

 chin and throat silvery white ; across the latter a bright crimson band, 

 from behind each eye to the opposite ; breast and belly pale cinna- 

 mon, growing white towards the vent; middle of the belly chestnut ; 

 tail black, all but the two middle feathers have a white spot on the 

 inner web, at the tip, but on the outer the whole of the inner tip is 

 white ; legs flesh-colour. 



The female is every where paler in colour, and wants the crimson 

 band on the throat; the under parts wholly pale cinnamon, and the 

 white at the tips of the tail feathers less conspicuous. 



Inhabits Africa. In the collection of Lord Stanley is a Variety 

 of the male, in which the band across the throat is orange-coloured, 

 bounded above with white : in some the red band on the throat is 

 blood-colour, and from this circumstance it has been called by some, 

 the Cut-throat Sparrow. 



73— THICK-BILLED GROSBEAK. 



Loxia crassirostris Ind. Orn. i. 390. Gm. Lin. i. 862. Dand. ii. 416. Shaw's Zool. 



ix. p. 324. 

 Thick-billed Grosbeak, Gen. Syn. iii. 148. Id. Sup, 152. 



SIZE of a Bulfinch ; length five inches and three quarters. The 

 bill is very robust, and deeper than its length, being three quarters 

 of an inch from the base on the forehead, to that of the under jaw ; 

 the upper mandible passing backwards some way on the forehead ; 

 about half way from the tip is a deep notch, the colour pale yellow ; 

 plumage in general black, except the bottoms of the quills, which 

 are white, forming a spot on the wing ; tail two inches long, base of 

 the middle feathers white ; legs whitish. 



