GROSBEAK. 287 



117.—GOLD-HEADED GROSBEAK. 



Grosbec de couleur d'or et de plomb, Voy. d'Azara, iii. No. 129. 



LENGTH five inches ; extent of wing eight. Bill stout, dusky, 

 pale beneath ; round the base, half the head, the wings and tail, 

 gold-colour ; throat, and neck before, lead-colour, the feathers with 

 whitish tips ; the rest of the plumage the same, with a tinge of 

 brown on the under parts ; thighs gilded fillemot ; legs full olive. 



One of these met with at Paraguay, in December ; it was much 

 mutilated, and uncertain whether it was an adult bird. 



118— BLACK-CRESTED GROSBEAK. 



Loxia coronata, Indt Orn. i. 391. Gm. Lin. i. 859. Daud.'u. 419. Shaiv's Zool. ix. 242. 



Pyrrhula Americana cristata, Bris. iii. 327. Id. 8vo. i. 400. 



La Huppe noire, Buf. iv. 397. 



Avis Americana, Rubicilla, Seba,\. t. 102. 3. Klein, 95. 



Black-crested Grosbeak, Gen. Syn. iii. 150. 



LARGER than our Bulfinch ; length near six inches. Bill 

 white, half an inch long; on the head a black crest; the upper parts 

 of the body, wings, and tail, scarlet, the under blue ; on the middle 

 of the neck before, a black spot; the tail rather more than one inch 

 and a half long; the wings reach to about two-thirds of its length. 



Inhabits America. The only figure of it is that of Seba, which 

 has been copied from a bad drawing, and the crest is no ways dis- 

 tinguished in the engraving. I have not yet seen such a bird. 



