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HAWFINCH GROSBEAK. 

 (Loxia Coccothraustes.) 



L. cinereo-castanea, linea alarum alba, remigibus mediis apice 



rliombeis, rectricibus latere baseos vigris. 

 Grosbeak of a cinereous chesnut-colour, with a white line on 



the wings ; middle quill-feathers rhomboid at the tip ; lateral 



tail-feathers at the base black. 

 Loxia Coccothraustes. Lin. Syst. Nat. 1. 299. — Lin. Faun. 



Suec. 222. — Amcen. Acad. 4. 594. 122. — Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 



844. — Briss. 3. 219. 1. — Lath. Ind. Orn. 1. 372. 4. 

 Le Gros-bec. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 3. 444. 27. f. I.— Buff. PI. 



Enl. 99. male. — 100. female. 

 Grosbeak. Pen. Brit. Zool. 113. — Pen. Arct. Zool. 2. 354. C. 



Edwards. 188. — Letvin. Brit. Birds. 2. 67. — Lath. Gen. Syn. 



3. 103. 4. — Lath. Syn. Sup. 148. — Bewick. Brit. Birds. 1. 



133.— Mont. Brit. Birds. l.—Don. Brit. Birds. 2.43. 



Weight about two ounces : beak nearly an inch 

 long, and one half thick at the base, very strong, 

 and pinkish when alive, but fades after death to a 

 pale horn-colour : irides grey : crown and cheeks 

 bay-coloured : between the beak and eye, and 

 round the nostrils, black : chin and throat the 

 same : hind part of the neck ash-coloured : back 

 and scapulars chesnut-brown : rump and upper 

 tail-coverts light brown, inclining to ash-colour : 

 breast light brown, tinged with blossom-colour : 

 quills dusky black ; the points from the fourth to 

 the fifteenth or sixteenth truncated, and some of 

 them bent down, which gives the bird a curious 

 appearance : primary quills have each of them a 

 spot of white about the middle of the inner web : 



