278 GROSBEAK. 



greater wing coverts tipped with the same, forming a bar ; breast and 

 belly white, marked with long, brown dashes ; the middle of the 

 belly and vent white ; tail a trifle forked ; legs brown. 



Inhabits Hudson's Bav, and there called Atic-koom-a shish. 



101.— DOMINICAN GROSBEAK. 



Loxia Dominicana, Lid. Orn.i. 377. Lin. i. 301. Gm. Lin. i. 848. Amcen. ac. iv. 242. 



Spalowsk. Vog.i. t. 17. Gerin. iii. t 332. Daud. ii. 380. Shaw's Zool. ix. 276. 

 Coccothraustes Brasiliensis, Bris. iii. 246. Id. Svo. i. 377. 

 Rubicilla Americana, Raii, p. 86. Will. ISO. Id. Engl. 147. § 11. 

 Dominican Cardinal, Edw. pi. 127. 

 Dominican Grosbeak, Gen. Syn. iii. 123. Id. Sup. 151. 



SIZE of a Lark. Bill brown above, and pale beneath ; eyes 

 bluish; head, throat, and neck before deep red; behind blackish, 

 with a slight mixture of white : wing coverts, back, rump, upper 

 tail coverts, and scapulars grey, with a few black spots ; sides of the 

 neck, and all beneath whitish ; quills black, edged with white ; tail 

 black; legs cinereous. — Inhabits Brazil. 



A. — Cardinalis Dominicanus, Bris. iii. 89. Id. Svo. 339. 



Tije Guacu Paroara, Raii, 89. Will. 188. t. 41. 45. Id. Engl. 256. Buf. iii. 500. 



pi. 31. 

 Cardinal Dominiquaiu, PI. enl. 55. 2. 

 Pope Grosbeak, Gen. Syn. iii. 124. B. Arct. Zool. ii. No. 211. 



Length six inches and three quarters. Bill pale ; head and throat 

 tine red ; the general colour of the plumage above black ; hind part, 

 sides of the neck, and all beneath white, but down the middle of 

 the neck behind it is black ; back, scapulars, and rump cinereous ; 

 some of the feathers of the first margined with black ; wing coverts 

 black, across the lower a stripe of white ; the quills and tail black, 

 margined with white, the last rather forked. The female differs, in 

 having the fore part of the head yellow orange, dotted with red. 



Inhabits Brazil, and other parts of America. 



