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GRENADIER GROSBEAK. 

 (Loxia Orix.) 



L. sanguined, facie pectoreque atris, alis rectricibusque nigrican- 

 tibus. 



Blood-coloured Grosbeak, with the face and breast black; wings 



and tail-feathers blackish. 

 Loxia Orix. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 863. — Lath. Ind. Orn. 1. 



376. 17.— Lin. ManU 527. 

 Emberiza Orix. Lin. Syst. Nat. 1. 309.7. 

 Cardinalis Capitis Bonse Spei. Bris. 3. 114. 21. t. Q.f. 3. 

 Cardinal du Cap de Bonne Esperance. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 



3. 496. —Buff. PL Enl. Q.f. 2. male. 134./. I. female. 

 Le rouge noire. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 3. 46. 

 Gros-bec de Cayenne. Buff. PI. Enl. 30g.f. 2. 

 Grenadier Grosbeak. Edwards. 178. — Lath. Gen. Syn. 3. 120. 



16. — Lath. Syn. Sup. 



Size of the Madagascar Grosbeak : forehead, 

 sides of the head, chin, breast and belly black : 

 wings brown, with pale edges : rest of the body of 

 a most beautiful red: lower part of the thighs 

 brown : legs pale. This bird varies very much, 

 and is sometimes found with the tail of the same 

 colour as the wings, and the knees without the 

 brown mark : the black mark on the chin is often 

 wanting, and the tail-coverts are occasionally so 

 long, that the tail itself is quite hid. 



This species is gregarious, and builds its nest in 

 large societies, among the reeds, near the rivers 

 and ponds in the vicinity of the Cape of Good 

 Hope and St. Helena : the appearance of these 

 birds among the reeds is said to have a most beau- 



