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79.— ORANGE GROSBEAK. 



Loxia aurantia, Ind. Orn. i. 390. Gm. Lin. i. 853. Baud. ii. 417. Shaw's Zool. \x. 



320. 

 Le Bouvret, Bouvreuil de Bourbon, &c. Buf. \v. 387. PL en/. 204. 1. 2. 

 Le Grosbec changeant, Voy. d'Azara, iii. No. 126 ? 

 Orange Grosbeak, Gen. Syn. iii. 146. 



LENGTH four inches and a half. Bill dusky ; top of the head 

 black ; wings and tail the same, edged with orange, and some of the 

 inner quills with white; the rest of the bird fine orange; legs pale 

 red. The female has the whole head and neck before black ; under 

 part of the body white; the rest orange, but less bright; the quills 

 edged with grey. 



Inhabits the Isle of Bourbon ; also the Cape of Good Hope. 



A. — One in the collection of Lord Stanley, near four inches long, 

 was dull orange, with a small white speck on the outer edge of the 

 wing. Female black brown, with a very pale streak over the eye ; 

 tail and quills in both with pale edges; and the legs pale brown. 



The descriptions taken from the living birds, which were said to 

 have come from Brazil. 



80— FERRUGINOUS GROSBEAK. 



Loxia ferruginosa, Mus. Carls, t. 90 — male. t. 91 — female. Skaiv's Zool. ix. 327. 

 Ferruginous Grosbeak, Gen. Syn. Sup. \\. 196. 



SIZE of the White-headed Grosbeak. The bill stout, cinereous, 

 darker at the base ; head and neck behind white ; chin and throat 

 brownish black ; the rest of the plumage in general ferruginous ; 

 between the thighs black ; quills darkest ; tail short ; legs black. 



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