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STRIATED GROSBEAK. 

 (Loxia striata.) 



"L. fusca Jerrugineo striata, subtus alba 9 jugulo nigro. 

 Brown Grosbeak striated with ferruginous ; beneath white ; ju- 

 gulum black. 



Loxia striata. Lin. Syst. Nat. 1. 306. 37. — Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 



861. — Lath. Ind. Orn. 1. 386. 53. 

 Coccothraustes borbonica. Briss. 3. 243. 11. t. 13./. 4. 

 Gros-bec de l'lsle de Bourbon. Buff. PL Enl. 153. 1. 

 Striated Grosbeak. Lath. Gen. Syn. 3. 142. 4?cj. 



This bird is scarcely larger than a Wren ; not 

 being four inches in length : head and upper parts 

 of the body brown, with the shafts of the feathers 

 rufous brown : throat, and fore-part of the neck, 

 blackish : lower part of the neck, breast, abdomen, 

 and vent, white : quills and tail blackish brown : 

 beak dusky : legs blackish. Inhabits the Isle of 

 Bourbon. 



