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CRESTED GROSBEAK. 



blackish at the ends: under parts pale blueish- 

 ash : tail blackish, edged with pale ash : legs dull 

 flesh-colour : inhabits Asia. 



CRESTED GROSBEAK. 

 (Loxia cristata.) 



L. albicans, fronte cristata, uropygio pedibusque rubris, rectrici- 



bus duabus intermediis longissimis. 

 Whitish Grosbeak with the forehead crested, rump and feet 



red, and two middle tail-feathers very long. 

 Loxia cristata. Lin. Syst. Nat. 1. 301. 9.— Gmel. SysL Nat. 1. 



849.— Lath. Ind. Orn. 1. 378. 24. 

 Crested Grosbeak. Lath. Gen. Syn. 3. 125. 23. 



Said to inhabit Ethiopia ; and to be very large: 

 prevailing colour whitish : the forehead crested, 

 and, with the breast and rump, red : tail cinereous ; 

 two middle feathers twice as long as the rest : legs 

 red : in the female the crest and breast are white. 



