286 GROSBEAK. 



reaching beyond the ears ; the rest of the head, back, wings, and 

 tail, dirty green ; breast and belly cinereous; legs whitish. 



Inhabits Mexico : described from a living one in the collection of 

 Mr. Tunstall ; said to have a soft and fine note, and called by some, 

 Tomtelio ; it was a lively, pretty bird, but did not change the colour 

 of the plumage at any season. 



115— SAINT DOMINGO GROSBEAK. 



Loxia Dominicensis, Ind. Orn. i. 383. Gm. Lin. i. 855. Daud. ii. 429. 



Le Verderin, Buf. iv. 165. PI. enl. 341. 2. 



Saint Domingo Grosbeak, Gen. Syn. iii. 137. Shaw's Zool. is. 273. 



SIZE of the Greenfinch ; length five inches and three quarters. 

 Bill reddish ; eyes in a bed of white ; plumage above green brown, 

 the edges of the feathers paler ; beneath rufous, spotted with brown ; 

 lower belly and vent white; quills black; tail and legs dusky brown. 



Inhabits Saint Domingo. 



116— PARAGUAN GROSBEAK. 



Grosbec a bee olivatre, Voy. d'Azara, iii. No. 123. 



LENGTH five inches. Bill pale olive; plumage above dusky 

 blue; wings and tail black ; the prime quills marked with white at 

 the base ; all beneath the body white ; on the wing coverts a few 

 dusky spots near the body; legs dusky. In some birds the feathers 

 of the back are tipped with white. 



Inhabits Paraguay ; frequent in the bushes, amidst cultivated 

 lands, and generally found single. Both sexes alike. 



