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large bottle, and suspended firmly on the branches, 

 in such a manner as to rock with the wind ; the en- 

 trance is below, to secure it from birds of prey. 

 The nest usually consists of two or three cham- 

 bers ; and it is popularly believed that the fyird 

 lights them with fire-flies, which it is said to catch 

 alive at night, and confine with moist clay, or 

 cow-dung : that such flies are often found in its 

 nest, where pieces of cow-dung are also stuck, is 

 indubitable ; but as their light could be of little 

 service to the bird, it seems probable that it only 

 feeds on them. 



CINEREOUS GROSBEAK. 

 (Loxia cana.) 



L. cana, remigibus rectricibusque fuscis, pedibus rubris. 

 Hoary Grosbeak, with the quills and tail-feathers brown ; feet 

 red. 



Loxia cana. Lin. Syst. Nat. 1. 305. 35. — Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 



859. — Lath. Ind. Orn. 1. 393. 77. 

 Fringilla cinerea indica. Briss. Sup. 83. 

 La Linotte gris de fer. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 4. 82. 

 Grey Finch. Edwards. 17y.f. 1. 

 Cinereous Grosbeak. Lath. Gen. Syn. 3. 154. 73. 



About the size of a Linnet: beak pale cine- 

 reous ; the base of the under mandible white : eyes 

 blackish : temples pale : upper parts of the plumage 

 dark ash-colour, which, as it approaches the rump, 

 gets paler : greater quills white at the base, and 



