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WHITE-BILLED GROSBEAK. 

 (Loxia torrida.) 



L. nigra, pectore abdomineque castanets. 

 Black Grosbeak, with the breast and abdomen chesnut. 

 Loxia torrida. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 854. — Lath. Ind. Orn. 1. 

 389-61. 



Le Bouvreuil a bee blanc. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 4. 388. 

 White-billed Grosbeak. Lath. Gen. Syn. 3. 146. 57, 



This bird has nearly the whole body black ; the 

 breast and belly only being chesnut : the two 

 middle tail-feathers longest: the beak is some- 

 times white : native of South America. 



BLACK GROSBEAK. 

 (Loxia nigra.) 



L. nigra, macula alba humeri basique remigium duarum exte- 

 riorum. 



Black Grosbeak, with a spot on the shoulder, and the base of the 



two outward quills white. 

 Loxia nigra. Lin. Syst. Nat. 1. 306. 40. — Gmel. Syst, Nat, 1. 



862. — Lath. Ind. Orn. 1 . 388. 59, 

 Pyrrhula mexicana nigra Briss. 3. 316. 3. 

 Le Bouvreuil noir du Mexique. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 4. 394. 

 Black Grosbeak. Lath. Gen. Syn, 3. 147. 60. 



Size of L. fusca : length five inches and a quar- 

 ter : beak stout, deeply notched in the middle of 

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