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98.— FAN-TAILED GROSBEAK. 



Loxia flabellifera, Ind. Orn.\. 380. Gm. Lin. i. 850. Daud. ii. 392. Shaw's Zool. ix. 



305. 

 La Queue en Eventail, Buf. iii. 462. PL enl. 380. 

 Fan-tailed Grosbeak, Gen. Syn. iii. 128. Arct. Zool. ii. No. 214. 



SIZE of a Sparrow ; length five inches. The bill stout, dusky ; 

 plumage above reddish brown, paler on the rump ; beneath the same, 

 but paler, and more inclined to red ; quills, tail, and legs, dusky. 



The female has the colours less bright ; breast and belly grey. 



Inhabits Virginia, and called there Fantail, as it frequently carries 

 the tail spread in a horizontal direction. 



99 —BRAZILIAN GROSBEAK. 



Loxia Brasiliana, Ind. Orn. i. 377. Daud. ii. 379. Shaw's Zool. ix. 317. 

 Le Grivelin, Grosbec du Bresil, Bvf. iii. 461. t. 30. PI. enl. 309. 1. 

 Brazilian Grosbeak, Gen. Syn. iii. 122. 



LENGTH five inches and three quarters. The bill short, thick, 

 flesh-coloured ; head and chin red ; beneath this a ring of white, not 

 quite meeting on the fore part ; back and wing coverts brown ; the 

 quills and tail black ; wing coverts and secondaries with pale reddish 

 tips ; end of the tail white ; breast, belly, and sides, reddish white, 

 marked with round white spots, more or less surrounded with black • 

 middle of the belly red ; rump dusky ; legs pale red. 



Inhabits Brazil ; sometimes brought alive to England. 



100.— HUDSONIAN GROSBEAK. 



Loxia Hudsonica, Ind. Orn. i. 379. Daud. ii. 416. Shaw's Zool. ix. 297. 

 Hudsonian Grosbeak, Gen. Syn. Sup. ii. 192. 



LENGTH five inches. Bill short, thick, brown ; plumage above 

 deep brown, the feathers mostly margined with rufous ; middle and 



