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DOMINICAN GROSBEAK* 

 (Loxia dominicana.) 



L. nigra, capite gulaque coccineis, pectore abdomine remigibusque 

 margine albis. 



Black Grosbeak, with the head and throat crimson ; breast, ab- 

 domen, and quills margined with white. 



Loxia dominicana. Lin. Syst.Nat. 1. 301. 8. — Amcen. Acad. 

 4. 242.— Gmel. Syst. Nat. I, 848.— Lath Ind. Orn. 1. 377- 

 21. 



Dominican Cardinal. Edwards. 127 



Dominican Grosbeak. Lath. Gen. Syn. 3. 123. 20. — Lath.Syn. 

 Sup. 151. 



/3. capite anterior e guttureque rubris, rectricibus nigris cinereo 

 marginatis ; extima margine exterior e alba. 



With the anterior part of the head and the throat red, tail-fea- 

 thers black, margined with cinereous, the outer one with the 

 exterior margin white. 



Cardinalis dominicanus. Briss. 3. 116. 22. t. Q.f. 4. 



Cardinal dominiquain. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 3. 500. — Buff. PI. 

 Enl. 55. 2. 



Pope Grosbeak. Pen. Arct. Zool. 2. 211. — Lath. Gen. Syn. 3. 

 124. 20. /3. 



This bird appears to vary very much : it is the 

 size of a Lark : beak stout : the upper mandible 

 brown, the under pale flesh-colour : eyes blueish : 

 head, throat, and fore-part of the neck bright red : 

 hind part of the neck blackish, with a mixture of 

 white ; sides of the latter whitish : back, rump, 

 wing, upper tail-coverts, and scapulars grey, spot- 

 ted with black : breast, belly, thighs, and vent 

 whitish: quills black, edged with white : tail black : 

 legs cinereous. 



