276 GROSBEAK. 



has a small spot of black ; otherwise it resembles the common sort 

 A specimen of this was in the Museum of Count Carlson. 



96.— INDIAN GROSBEAK. 



Loxia Boetonensis, Ind.Orn.\. 376. Gm. Lin.r. 847. Daud. ii. 377. 

 Coccothraustes Indica, Bris. iii. 252. Id. 8vo. i. 379. 

 Psittacus cristatus ruber minor ex Ins. Boetonensi, Seba, i. t. 60. 4. 

 Tndian Grosbeak, Gen. Syn. iii. 119. Shaw's Zool. ix. 247. 



LARGER than a Hawfinch ; length eight inches. Bill one inch 

 long, and legs yellow ; plumage in general fine deep red, tending 

 to brown on the wings, and near the bill ; on the head a fine, pointed, 

 red crest. 



Inhabits India ; brought, according to Seba, from the Island of 

 Boeton ; said to have a pleasing voice, readily imitating the human 

 speech. We are suspicious, that this bird is the same with the 

 Cardinal Grosbeak, and that Seba may have been mistaken in respect 

 to the place it came from. 



97. -ASH-COLOURED GROSBEAK. 



Loxia cinerea, Mus. Carls. Fasc. iv. t. 88. 

 Ash-coloured Grosbeak, Gen. Syn. Sup.u. 196. 



THIS is said to be a large species ; in the plate the figure is 

 between six and seven inches in length. Bill white, curved at the 

 tip of the upper mandible, where it is black ; irides red; feathers of 

 the crown elevated into a crest; the head, neck, back, and wings 

 ash-coloured brown ; belly very pale, nearly white ; the tail much 

 rounded in shape, the inner webs of the feathers black, the outer 

 white; legs red. 



Inhabits Malacca, the Islands of Sumatra, and Java; and seems 

 to resemble the female Cardinal Species. 



