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MOLUCCA GROSBEAK. 

 (Loxia molucca.) 



L. fuscescens, capite, jzigulo, rectricibusque nigris, sitbtus uropy- 



gioque albo nigroque undulata. 

 Brownish Grosbeak, with the head, jugulum, and tail-feathers 



black beneath, and with the rump waved with black and 



white. 



Loxia molucca. Lin. Syst. Nat. 1. 302. 17- — Gmel. Syst. Nat. 



1. SSI.— Lath. Ind. Orn. 1. 386. 52. 

 Coccothraustes moluccensis. Briss. 3. 241. 10. t. 13.^ 3. 

 Gros-bec des Mbluques. Buff. PI. Enl. 139. 2. 

 Molucca Grosbeak. Lath. Gen. Syn. 3. 141. 48. 



From the Molucca Isles : in length four inches : 

 beak dusky : hind part of the head, and upper 

 parts of the body, brown : fore-part of the former, 

 with the sides and front of the neck, black : under 

 parts of the body, from the breast to the vent, un- 

 dulated with black and white in a transverse di- 

 rection : rump the same : quills dark brown : upper 

 tail-coverts and tail black : quills deep brown : legs 

 brown. 



