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MADAGASCAR GROSBEAK. 

 (Loxia raadagascariensis.) 



L. rubra, dorso nigricante-maculato, rostro albo. 

 Red Grosbeak with the back spotted with blackish, and beak 

 white. 



Loxia madagascariensis. Lin. Syst. Nat. 1. 300. 6. — Gmel. Syst. 



Nat. l. 847.— Lath. Ind. Orn. 1. 376. l6. 

 Cardinalis madagascariensis. Briss. 3. 112. 20. t. 2. 

 Le Foudis. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 3. 495. 

 Moineau de Madagascar. Buff. PI. Enl. 134./. 2. 

 Madagascar Grosbeak. Lath. Gen. Syn. 3. 119- 15. — Lath. 



Syn. Sup. 150. 



This beautiful species is the size of a House 

 Sparrow : length above five inches : beak white : 

 head, neck, back, breast, and belly, bright crim- 

 son : quills and tail brown, margined with olive- 

 green : legs grey-brown : young bird olive. Is 

 known at Madagascar by the name of Foudi lahe 

 mence, and in India, by that of the Common Totty* 



