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LINEATED GROSBEAK. 

 (Loxia Lineola.) 



L. cceruleo-nigra, linea Jrontali temporihus macula alarum cor- 



poreque subtus albis. 

 Blue-black Grosbeak, with a line on the forehead ; temples, spots 



on the wings, and body beneath white. 

 Loxia Lineola. Lin. Syst. Nat. 1 . 304. 25. — Gmel. Syst. Nat. 



X. 854. — Lath. Ind. Orn. 1. 390. 68. 

 Pyrrhula africana nigra minor. Briss. 3. 388. 5. t. 1? ' .f. 1. 

 Le Bouveron. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 4. 388. 

 Bouvreuil a plumes frisees. Buff. PI. Ent. 31p. 1. p. 

 Lineated Grosbeak. Lath. Gen. Syn. 3. I4g. 63. 



Of this bird the beak is gibbous and black, with 

 a white spot on the base of the upper mandible, 

 and a line of the same colour from the forehead to 

 the crown : upper parts of the body glossy blue- 

 black : under parts white : base of the primary 

 quills white, forming a spot of that colour on the 

 wing, the rest of which is black : tail slightly 

 forked and black : inhabits Asia. 



Buffon figures a very singular variety of this 

 bird in the Planches Enluminees, with all the 

 feathers on the under parts long and frizzled, 

 which may probably be a distinct species. 



