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YELLOW-FRONTED GROSBEAK. 

 (Loxia butyracea.) 



L. virescens, front e superciliis pectore abdominequejlavis, cauda 

 apice alba. 



Greenish Grosbeak, with the forehead, a line over the eyes, and 



abdomen yellow ; tail white at the tip. 

 Loxia butyracea. Lin. Syst. Nat. 1. 304. 28.— Gmel Syst. Nat. 



3. 855.— Lath. Ind. Orn. 1. 383. 41. 

 Le Verd brunet. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. €. 182. 

 Verdier du Cap de Bonne Esperance. Buff. PL EM 341. f. 1. 

 Yellow-fronted Grosbeak. Lath. Gen. Syn.3. 136. 38. 



The length of the Yellow-fronted Grosbeak is 

 about five inches : beak palish : forehead and tem- 

 ples yellow ; which colour joins a streak above the 

 eyes : prevailing colour above green spotted with 

 brown: beneath entirely yellow: tail blackish, 

 slightly forked, and tipped with white : legs black 

 female with a whitish vent; all the quills but the 

 outer one dusky, with yellow margins, and pale at 

 the tip : lesser wing-coverts black, with green mar- 

 gins, and the greater ones the same colour, edged 

 with pale brown : native of the Cape of Good 

 Hope. 



