264 GROSBEAK. 



77.— WHITE-HEADED GROSBEAK. 



Loxia Maia, Lid. Orn. i. 391. Lin. \. 301. Gm. Lin. i. 849. Daud.ii.441. Shale's 



Zoo!, ix. 301. 

 Maia Sinensis, Bris. iii. 212. t. 9. 2. Id. 8vo. i. 365. 

 Fringilla Maia, Lin. Trans, xiii. p. 162. 



Maian, Maia, Buf. iv. 107. t. 3.— lower fig. PL enl. 109. 1. 

 Malacca Grosbeak, Edw. pi. 306. 1. Osb. Voy. ii. 328. 

 White-headed Grosbeak, Gen. Syn. ii. 151. 



LENGTH four inches. Bill grey brown, paler beneath ; head 

 and neck dirty white; body above, wings, and tail, chestnut brown ; 

 breast pale brown ; belly and vent blackish ; the second and fourth 

 quills grey ; legs grey. 



Inhabits Malacca, and China. — Buffon's specimen had the breast, 

 as well as the belly, black ; the bill lead-coloured. Found in Java, 

 called there Bordol. 



78— MUSTACHOE GROSBEAK. 



Loxia mystacea, Ind. Om. Sup. xlvi. Daud. ii. 44. 6. Shaw's Zool. ix. 309. 

 Mustachoe Grosbeak, Gen. Syn. Sup. ii. 197. 



LENGTH under four inches. Bill reddish brown, tip black ; 

 head and neck behind reddish brown ; above the eye a bright red 

 streak, and another of the same at the corners of the mouth ; throat 

 and neck before pale grey; body above, wings, and tail brown, 

 inclining to olive; beneath whitish grey; legs flesh-colour. 



Inhabits Cochin China. 



