266 GROSBEAK. 



The female is in general ferruginous, but paler ; chin pale ash- 

 colour; breast and under parts reddish ash; bill and legs as in the 

 male. — Inhabits the East Indies : the male, with the exception of 

 the black on the chin, approaches much to the Ash-coloured Species. 



81.— CINEREOUS GROSBEAK. 



Loxia cana, Ind. Orn. i. 393. Lin. i. 305. Gm. Lin. i. 859. Shaw's Zool. ix. 259. 

 Fringilla cinerea Indica, Bris. Sup. 83. Id. 8vo. i. 369. 

 La Linotte gris de fer, Buf. iv. 82. 

 Grey Finch, Edw. pi. 179. 1. 

 Cinereous Grosbeak, Gen. Syn. iii. 154. 



SIZE of a Linnet. The bill dull ash-colour; base of the under 

 mandible surrounded with white; round the eyes pale; plumage 

 above deep ash-colour, paler towards the rump ; beneath the same, 

 with a bluish tinge ; greater quills white at the base, and blackish 

 at the ends ; tail blackish, the feathers margined with pale ash-colour ; 

 legs reddish. — Inhabits Asia. 



A. — In the Leverian Museum is one somewhat similar, very pale 

 cinereous white ; the crown clouded with brown ; under parts white ; 

 wings, tail, and legs as in the other. 



Said to have been brought from Canton, in China. 



82— FASCINATING GROSBEAK. 



Loxia fascinans, Ind. Orn. Sup. xlvi. Shaw's Zool. ix. 298. 

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



SIZE of a Bulfinch, but longer. Plumage in general above dusky 

 black, inclining to brown, beneath white ; one or more of the outer 

 tail feathers white ; bill and legs dusky. 



