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CANADA GROSBEAK. 

 (Loxia canadensis.) 



L. viridi-olivacea, subtusjlavo-olivacea, capistro nigro. 

 Green-olive Grosbeak, beneath yellow olive, with the capistrum 

 black. 



Loxia canadensis. Lin. Syst. Nat. 1. 304. 29. — Gmel. Syst. Nat. 



1. 856. — Lath. Ind. Orn. 1. 379. 29. 

 Coccothraustes cayanensis. Briss. 3. 229. 4. t. l\.f. 3. 

 Le Flavert, Gros-bec de Cayenne. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 3. 462. 



—Buff. PI. Enl, \52.f. 2. 

 Canada Grosbeak. Pen. Arct. Zool. 2. 220. — Lath. Gen. Syn. 



3. 127. 27. 



Size of Fringilla domestica : length near seven 

 inches : edges of the beak slightly margined in the 

 middle, and ash-coloured : upper parts of the body 

 olive-green : under parts the same, but paler and 

 inclining to yellow : capistrum and chin black : 

 legs grey : is sometimes found of a blue-grey co- 

 lour above, instead of olive-green, and pale grey 

 beneath : female cinereous brown : found at Cay- 

 enne, and supposed by Linnaeus to be a native of 

 Canada. 



