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tufted streak, passing over the eyes, just above which it changes to 

 yellow, and blends with the olive-green at the nape; sides of the head, 

 from the gape, fine ash-colour ; the chin and part of the throat black, 

 bounded on each side with a bed of white ; throat, breast, and sides, 

 pale ash-colour; down the middle of the belly, and the thighs, fine 

 yellow; under wing coverts, and edge of the wing, fine yellow; 

 tail cuneiform, the six middle feathers three inches and a half long, 

 the three outer only three inches ; the four middle ones plain dusky 

 greenish, with olive edges, the next on each side the same, but with 

 a long dash of yellow, about the middle, from the inner web to the 

 end, and the three others almost wholly yellow, but the outer webs 

 brown from about half way to the end; quills dusky, edged with 

 greenish yellow ; legs stout, brown. 



In the collection of Lord Stanley : from whence uncertain. 



105— YELLOW-CRESTED GROSBEAK. 



La Huppe jaune, Voy. d'Azara, iii. No. 129. 



SIZE of the Crested Dominican Grosbeak, but the bill stouter, 

 and black ; head, cheeks, throat, and half the neck before black, 

 the rest of the sides of the head, and neck, bend of the wing, and 

 all the under parts yellow, also a yellow streak from the nostrils, 

 reaching beyond the eyes ; hind part of the neck greenish yellow, 

 and black in the middle ; back green ; quills and upper wing coverts 

 dusky, edged with greenish yellow ; the same in respect to the 

 four middle tail feathers, the others yellow. 



Met with in South America, in 29° of lat. 



TOL. V. O O 



