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ASIATIC GROSBEAK. 

 (Loxia asiatica.) 



L. cinereo-rubescens subtus cinerea, abdomine pallide rubro, ca- 

 pite tectricibus alarum majoribus remigibus caudaque apice 

 nigris. 



Reddish ash-coloured Grosbeak, beneath plain ash; abdomen 

 pale red ; head, greater wing-coverts, quills, and tip of the 

 tail, black. 



Loxia asiatica. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 858. — Lath. Ind. Orn. 1. 

 394.. 83. 



Asiatic Grosbeak. Lath. Gen. Syn. 3. 155. 96. — Lath. Syn. 

 Sup. 153. 76. A. 



In length about seven inches : beak stout, 

 slightly bent, and yellowish, with the point dusky: 

 irides red : head black : upper part of the neck, 

 body, and lesser wing-coverts, blueish ash-colour ; 

 beneath the same, but paler ; with an orange tinge 

 beneath the wings : greater wing-coverts, quills, 

 and tail, black: quills, and two middle tail-fea- 

 thers, with white tips : legs red. Is said to vary 

 in having the upper parts of the body reddish 

 ash: belly pale red; and the quills, greater co- 

 verts, and tail, with black tips : called Lap-tzoy 

 in China, of which place it is a native. 



