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RED- BREASTED GROSBEAK. 

 (Loxia ludoviciana.) 



ly. nigra, pectore rubro, ventre alarum fascia basique remigum 

 albis. 



Black Grosbeak, with the breast red ; belly, quills, and fascia at 



the base of the wings white. 

 Loxia ludoviciana. Lin. Syst. Nat. 1. 306. 38. — Gmel. Syst. 



Nat. 1. SQl.—Lath. Ind. Orn. 1. 379. 25. 

 Coccothraustes ludoviciana. Briss. 3. 247. 14. t. 12. f. 2. 

 Le Rose-gorge. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 3. 460. 

 Gros-bec de la Louisiane. Biff. PL Enl. 153. 2. 

 Red-breasted Grosbeak. Pen. Arct. Zool. 212. — Lath. Gen. Syn. 



3. 126. 24. 



The Red-breasted Grosbeak is in length six 

 inches and three quarters: beak brown: head, 

 upper parts of the body and half of the tail black : 

 breast and under wing-coverts light purple : belly, 

 thighs, vent, and rump white, the first varied with 

 a few purple spots : on the wings are three white 

 stripes ; one across the coverts, a second parallel 

 to the edge of the wing, and the other on the tip 

 of the scapulars : half of the three outer tail-fea- 

 thers white, and the tip of the fourth on the inner 

 web the same : legs brown : varies in having the 

 sides of the breast and thighs of a ferruginous 

 brown : vent pale yellow. Found at Louisiana. 



