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GOLD-BACKED GROSBEAK. 

 (Loxia aurea.) 



L. nigra, dorso uropygioque luteis, tectricibus alarum Juscescenti- 



bus nigro maculatis. 

 Black Grosbeak with the back and rump yellow; wing-coverts 



brownish, spotted with black. 

 Loxia aurea. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 846. — Lath. Ind. Orn. 1. 



373. 8. 



Gold-backed Grosbeak. Brotvn. III. 25. — Lath, Gen. Syn. 3. 

 115. 9.— Lath. Syn. Sup. 149. 



A very beautiful species, with the beak, head, 

 and neck deep black : back, rump, and upper tail- 

 coverts, of a rich golden yellow : the ends of the 

 two latter fringed with dusky : wing-coverts light 

 brown, spotted with black : breast and belly black : 

 all but the two middle tail-feathers with pale edges: 

 legs blueish : female of a dark brown, to which 

 colour the male is said to change in the winter. 

 Found at Benguela in Africa. 



