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PHILIPPINE GROSBEAK. 

 (Loxia philippina. ) 



L. fusca suhtus albido Jlavicans, vertice pectoreque luteis, gula 

 Jusca. 



Brown Grosbeak, beneath whitish yellow ; crown of the head 



and breast yellow ; throat brown. 

 Loxia philippina. Lin. Syst. Nat. 1. 305. ZQ.^-Gmel. Syst. Nat. 



1. 860.— Briss. 3. 232. 6. t. 12. f. 1. mas. t. 18,/. 1. 2. nidus. 



— Lath. Ind. Orn. 1. 380. 32. 

 Toucnam-courvi des Philippines. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 3. 465. 



— 3. 46g. var. /3. — Buff. PI. Enl. 135. 2. mas. 

 Philippine Grosbeak. Lath. Gen. Syn. 3. 129. 30. — Lath. Syn. 



Sup. II. 193. 4. 



This bird is said to be one of the most docile of 

 all known birds : it is in length five inches and a 

 quarter : beak, capistrum, sides of the head be- 

 neath the eyes, and chin brown : irides, crown of 

 the head, hind part of the neck, back, and scapu- 

 lars yellow, with a brown spot in the middle of 

 each feather : rump brown, margined with white : 

 fore-part of the neck and breast yellow : abdomen 

 and vent yellowish white : wing-coverts and quills 

 brown, the former edged with white, the latter 

 with pale rufous : tail the same : legs yellowish : 

 female with the upper parts brown, edged with 

 rufous : under parts pale rufous ; this bird is oc- 

 casionally found with the sides of the head above 

 the eyes black 5 the .black and brown mixture 

 on the back less distinct ; and the greater wing- 



