284 GROSBEAK. 



Bouvreuil noir du Mexique, Buf. iv. 394. 



Little black Bulfincli, Cates. Car, i. 68. Albhi, iii. pi. G9. Bancr. 179. 



Black Grosbeak, Ge«. Sy». iii. 147. 



SIZE of a Canary Finch ; length five inches and a quarter. Bill 

 stout, black, and deeply notched in the middle of the upper man- 

 dible; plumage black, except a little white on the fore part of the 

 wing, and the base of the two first quills; legs black. 



Inhabits Mexico. 



1 1 1 — WHITE-RUMPED GROSBEAK. 



LENGTH four inches and a half. Bill short, black; head, and 

 all the upper parts of the body, glossy black ; a broad white streak 

 on each jaw, beginning at the bill ; all beneath, from the breast, 

 and the rump white; the base of some of the quills white, forming 

 a spot on the wing ; tail black, the feathers a little pointed at the 

 ends; thighs and legs black. 



Inhabits Trinidad. — In the collection of Lord Stanley. 



112.— WHITE-BILLED GROSBEAK. 



Loxia torrida, Ind. Om. i. 389. Gm. Lin. i. 854. Scop. i. 204. Daud. ii. 414. 



Shaw's Zool. ix. 321. 

 Grosbec noir et roux, Voy. d' Azara, iii. No. 121. 

 Bouvreuil a bee blanc, Buf. iv. 388. 

 White-billed Grosbeak, Gen. Syn. iii. 146. 



GENERAL colour of the plumage black ; the breast and belly 

 chestnut; the two middle feathers of the tail longest. 



Inhabits South America, but is rare : Azara met with one only 

 at Paraguay : Buffbn's bird came from Guiana, and had a white bill. 

 M. Daudin says, the bill changes to horn-colour after death, and 



