MALACCA GROSBEAK. 
This beautiful bird was first figured by Ed- 
wards, from whom it received the name 
which we have adopted. In the Linnaean List 
of Edwards's Birds, it is called Loxia Maja: 
but, in his own Catalogue of Latin names, Ed- 
wards sets- it down as the Coccothraustes Ma- 
laccensis. 
I The account which Edwards gives of this 
bird is very short. He tells us, that a dried 
^specimen, the property of the obliging and 
|curious Taylor White, Esq, of Lincoln's Inn, 
lay before him while he worked on the plate : 
and, that those who brought it from India 
called it the Malacca Wren ; " which name," 
adds he, " I chose to alter, the bird having 
.nothing of the Wren in it but it's size." 
His description is as follows — " The Ma- 
lacca Grosbeak has the bill of a blue colour ; 
thick, and string, in proportion to the size of 
the bird. The head, and undersides of the 
wings^ 
