282 GROSBEAK. 



106— CANADA GROSBEAK. 



Loxia Canadensis, bid. Om. i. 379. Lin. i. 304. Gm. Lin. i. S56. Dattd. ii. 373. 



Shaiv's Zool. ix. 269. 

 Coccothraustes Cayanensis, Um. iii. 229. t. 11. 3. Id. 8vo. i. 372. 

 Le Flavert, Grosbec de Cayenne, Buf. iii. 462. PI. enl. 152. 2. 

 Canada Grosbeak, Gen. Syn. iii. 127. Arct. Zool. ii. 220. • 



SIZE of a House Sparrow ; length near seven inches. Bill ash- 

 colour, the edges somewhat projecting in the middle ; upper parts 

 of the plumage olive-green, the under paler, and inclining to yellow ; 

 feathers round the base of the bill, and the chin black; legs grey. 



Inhabits Cayenne, and, according to Linnaeus, also Canada. 



A. — A Variety of this bird is sometimes seen, with the upper 

 parts blue grey instead of olive-green, the under pale grey instead of 

 yellowish. The female cinereous brown, where the male is blue 

 grey, and much paler in general. 



This Variety was brought from Cayenne. 



107— SPOTTED GROSBEAK. 



Loxia maculata, Ind. Om. i. 379. Gm. Lin. i. 861. Daud. ii. 391. Shaw's Zool. x. 307. 

 Spotted Grosbeak, Gen. Syn. iii. 126. Arct. Zool. ii. No. 213. 



SIZE of a Yellowhammer. Bill stout, pale, with a dusky tip; 

 plumage above dusky ; every feather, except the wing coverts and 

 quills, spotted at the end with white ; under parts dirty white, with 

 dusky streaks ; over the eye a pale stripe; the outer tail feather 

 white on the outer web, almost to the tip, and near it a white spot 

 on the inner ; the next nearly the same, but less conspicuous ; quills 

 and tail fringed on the outer webs with dusky white ; legs pale brown. 



Inhabits New England, in America. 



