274 GROSBEAK. 



Found at New York in the middle of June. M. Temminck 

 quotes this, as being allied to the Rosy Finch.* 



25.— CARDINAL GROSBEAK. 



Loxia Cardinalis, hid. Orn. i. 375. Lin. i. 300. Amcen. ac. iv. 243. Gm. Lin. i. S47. 



Scop. i. 203. Frisch, t. 4. Borowsk. iii. 134. t. 61. B. Gcrin. iii. t. 329. Daud. 



ii. 375. Nat. Misc. pi. 105. Shaw's Zool. ix. pi. 46. 

 Coecothraustes Indica cristata, Raii, 85. JF///. 179. t. 44. Klein, 94. Johnst. Av. 



pi. 37. f. 2. 

 Coecothraustes Virginiana, £m. iii. 255. Id. 8vo. i. 379. 

 ■ Capensis ruber, rostro hiante, Petit). Gaz. t. x. f. 7. 



Grosbec de Virginie, Buf. iii. 458. pi. 28. PL enl. 37. 

 Cardinal Grosbeak, Gen. Syn. iii. 118. Id. Sup. 150. Arct. Zool. ii. No. 210. Ca*. 



Car. i. pi. p. 38. Brown, Jam. 647. Hist. Louis, ii. 139. ^4/J. i. pi. 57. Id. iii. 



pi. 61. Id. Song Birds, pi. p. 77. Kalm, It. iii. 31. Id. Voy. Tl. Gent. Mag. 



xxiii. pi. p. 512. Will. Engl. 245. pi. 44. Amer. Orn. i. pi. 11. f. 1. 2. 



THIS is nearly nine inches long, and twenty-one in extent of 

 wing. Bill stout, pale red ; irides dark hazel ; the head greatly 

 crested, the feathers rising up to a point when erect ; round the bill, 

 and on the throat black ; the rest of the bird fine red, beneath 

 inclining to chestnut; quills and tail dull red above, and brownish 

 within ; the tail much rounded in shape at the end, and the wings 

 reach about one-fourth part thereon ; legs pale brown. 



The female is for the most part reddish brown above, and pale 

 yellow brown beneath ; the crest smaller, of a dusky red ; wings and 

 tail as in the male, but duller. 



Inhabits several parts of North America, and known by the name 

 of Nightingale, having a remarkably fine song, not unlike that of 

 the last named bird ; in spring, and in most part of the summer, it 

 sits on the tops of the highest trees, singing early in the morning, so 

 loud as almost to pierce the ears; is frequently kept in cages, in 

 which it sometimes sings the year through, except at intervals; and 



* See Manuel d'Omith. p. 205. Id. Ed. ii. 337. 



