RED-BILLED GROSBEAK. 



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This species varies very much, so much so as 

 to have been put into different genera, being 

 sometimes found with the forehead, throat, and 

 cheeks, black : the rest of the head and upper 

 parts rufous grey : the middle of the feathers on 

 the back and upper parts dusky : the under parts 

 pale rufous, inclining to white on the breast and 

 belly : quills and tail blackish, with ash-coloured 

 margins : legs as above : female said to want the 

 black about the head. 



The Moineau du Senegal of Buffon appears to 

 be another variety of this species : it has the head, 

 neck, and under parts red, inclining to rufous : 

 upper parts brown and dusky mixed : the fore- 

 head between the beak and eye, and round the 

 throat, black : legs brown : beak fine red. 



This species is found over great part of Asia 

 and Africa. 



v. IX. p. II. 



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