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BLUE GROSBEAK. 

 (Loxia caerulea.) 



L. ccerulea, alis fuscis, fascia baseos purpurea. 

 Blue Grosbeak with brown. wings, having a purple fascia at the 

 base. 



Loxia caerulea. Lin. Syst. Nat. 1. 30(5. 41. — Gmel. Syst. Nat. 



1. 863.— Lath. Ind. Orn. 1. 374. 11. * 

 Pyrrhula carolinensis caerulea. Briss. 3. 323. 7. 

 Le Bee rond, ou Bouvreuil bleu d' Amerique. Buff. Hist. Nat. 



Ois. 4. 392. 



Blue Grosbeak. Pen. Arct. Zool. 2. 217. — Lath. Gen. Syn. 3. 

 116. 11. 



/3. remigibus rectricibusque nigris. 

 With the quills and tail-feathers black. 



Loxia cyanea. Lin. Syst. Nat. 1. 303. 32. — Amcen. Acad. 4. 



244. — Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 853. — Lath. Ind. Orn. 1. 374. 12. 

 Coccothraustes angolensis cyanea. Briss. App. 88. 

 Blue Grosbeak from Angola. Edwards. 125. — Lath, Gen. Syn. 



3. 117. 11. B. 



This variable bird is in length six inches : beak 

 stout, brown, and half an inch in length ; sur- 

 rounded at the base Math black feathers, which 

 reach on each side as far as the eye : quills and 

 tail brown, with a mixture of green : wing-coverts 

 with a red band : all the rest of the plumage blue : 

 legs dusky : is sometimes found entirely blue, ex- 

 cept a black spot between the beak and eye. 



Edwards mentions a variety which has a lead- 

 coloured beak : irides dark hazel : prevailing co- 

 lour of a fine deep blue, except the quills and 

 tail, which are black : legs black : said to have 



