BLUE-SHOULDERED GROSBEAK. 251 



been brought from Angola, but was most pro- 

 bably procured from some of the Portuguese set- 

 tlements in Brazil : by the Portuguese it is called 

 Azulam. 



BLUE-SHOULDERED GROSBEAK. 

 (Loxia virens.) 



L. virens, humeris cceruleis. 



Green Grosbeak, with the shoulders blue. 



Loxia virens. Lin. Syst. Nat. 1. 303. 23. — Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 



853.— Lath. Ind. Orn. 1. 392. 74. 

 Blue-shouldered Grosbeak. Lath. Gen. Syn. 3. 151. JO. 



Wing- coverts and shoulders blue : quills and 

 tail black ; with greenish margins : rest of the 

 bird green. Inhabits Surinam. 



