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BROWN GROSBEAK. 

 (Loxia fusca. ) 



'L.Jitsca, subtus albida, remigibus a tertia ad nonam basi omnino 

 albis. 



Brown Grosbeak, beneath whitish, with the quills from the third 



to the ninth black at the base. 

 Loxia fusca. Lin. Sysl. Nat. 1. 307. 46. — Amoen. Acad. 4. 245. 



19.—Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 805. — Lath. Lid. 1. 389- 64. 

 Brown Grosbeak. Lath. Gen. Syn. 3. lAJ. 58. 



Inhabits Africa and Bengal. Size of the Ca- 

 nary bird : beak short, thick, and lead-coloured : 

 head and upper parts of the body brown : under 

 parts pale ash-colour : quills dusky black ; the 

 eight middle ones white at the base : vent pure 

 white : tail dusky black, tipped with palish : legs 

 pale, 



