262 GROSBEAK. 



In the collection of Mr. Tunstall : native place uncertain. In 

 the Museum of the late Sir Ashton Lever was one fully answering 

 to the above description, but with the addition of a beautiful crimson 

 crown, indented at the back part, not unlike that of the Blue- 

 backed Manakin. 



74 —WARBLING GROSBEAK. 



Loxia cantans, Ind. Orn. i. 395. Gm. Lin. i. 859. Shale's Zool. ix. 295. 

 Brown Grosbeak, Brown, III. pi, 27. 

 Warbling Grosbeak, Gen. Syn. iii. 157. 



LENGTH four inches. Bill dusky ; plumage above brown, 

 obscurely marked with narrow dusky lines; belly white; tail deep 

 brown, cuneiform; legs blackish. 



Several of these were in the Leverian Museum, some of which 

 differed in being pale yellow beneath, and mottled on the chin, and 

 sides of the body, with dusky and white. 



Inhabits Africa; frequently brought by our traders from that 

 part ; sings pretty well, but is not long-lived in our climate. 



75— ASIATIC GROSBEAK. 



Loxia Asiatica, Ind. Orn. i. 394. Gm. Lin. i. 858. Daud. ii. 407. Shaw's Zool. ix. 261. 

 Asiatic Grosbeak, Gen. Syn, iii. 155. 



SIZE of a Bulfinch. Bill stout, yellow; head black; plumage 

 on the upper parts of the body reddish ash-colour ; beneath cine- 

 reous ; belly pale red ; greater wing coverts, quills, and tip of the 

 tail black ; the last forked in shape ; legs red. 



Inhabits China, called there Lap-tzoy. — This was met with 

 among some well painted drawings from that country. 



