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WHITE-THROATED GROSBEAK. 

 (Loxia grossa.) 



L. cano-ccerulescensyjugulo rectricibusque atris, gula alba, rostro 

 rubro. 



Hoary -blue Grosbeak, with the jugulum and tail-feathers dark 



coloured ; throat white ; beak red. 

 Loxia grossa. Lin. Syst. Nat. 1. 307* 44. — Gmel. Si/st. Nat, 1. 



864.— Lath. Ind. Orn. 1. 374. 10. 

 Coccothraustes americanus caerulea. Briss. App. 89. t. 5,f. 1. 



—Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 3. 456. 

 Gros-bec bleu d'Amerique. Buff. PI. Enl. 154. female. 

 White-throated Grosbeak. Lath, Gen. Sup. 3. 115. 10. 



Length seven inches and a half: beak very- 

 stout, and red ; with a process on each side of the 

 upper mandible, about the middle of the edge : 

 prevailing colour of the plumage deep blue : from 

 the beak to the lower part of the neck, a broad 

 black stripe ; in the middle of which, on the chin 

 and throat, is a large patch of white : legs dusky- 

 blue : female with less white on the chin, and not 

 surrounded with black, as in the male. Supposed 

 to inhabit Surinam. 



