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FASCIATED GROSBEAK. 

 (Loxia fasciata.) 



L. testaceo-fusca nigro undulata, sub gula fascia sanguinea. 

 Testaceous-brown Grosbeak, waved with black ; beneath the 



throat a blood-coloured fascia. 

 Loxia fasciata. Gmel. Syst. Nat, 1. 85Q. — Lath. Ind. Orn. 1. 



395. 87. 



Fasciated Grosbeak. Brotvn. III. 64. t. 27. — Lath. Gen. Syn. 

 3. 156. 80.— Lath. Syn. Sup. 154. 



This rare bird is in length above four inches 

 and a half: beak blueish grey : crown of the head, 

 hind part of the neck, back, and lesser wing-co- 

 verts, pale brown, waved with black : cheeks 

 brown, with a rich crimson band beneath, and a 

 black line below that: breast and belly brown, 

 with black undulations : quills black, secondaries 

 tipped with pale cinnamon colour: tail black, 

 with the whole of the inner web of the most ex- 

 terior feather white ; and the rest of the feathers, 

 except the two middle ones, with a white spot on 

 the tip of the inner webs : legs flesh-colour : sup- 

 posed to inhabit Africa : female much paler, and 

 without the crimson band on the throat ; the under 

 parts pale cinnamon colour, and the white at the 

 tip of the tail-feathers not so conspicuous as in the 

 male. 



