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JAVA GROSBEAK. 
Loxea Oryzivora. Lin. Sysl. i. p . 302. No. 14. 
Le Gros-bec cendre de la 
Chine. Bris.Orn. iii. p . 244 . 
Le Padda ou l’Oiseau de Riz. Buff. Ois. iii. p . 4 63. 
Padda, or Rice Bird. Edw . i . p . 4 \. 
Java Grosbeak. Lath. ii. p . 129. No. 29. 
Although this bird is very frequently met with at Java, and the Cape of 
Good Hope, there is great reason to suppose that the Europeans, in their 
intercourse with China and Java, had often carried these birds to that 
island ; and that it is an inhabitant, if not a native, of China, being fre- 
quently met with in their paintings, where it is called Hung-tzoy. 
It is represented on the plate of the size of life : the bill is very stout and 
thick for the size of the bird, of a fine red at the base, and paler towards the 
point, which is almost white ; the head and throat black ; the cheeks 
white; the upper part of the body, the neck, and breast, a most delicate 
pale ash-colour; the belly and thighs pale rose-colour ; the vent, and co- 
verts under the tail, white; the greater quill-feathers, and tail, a glossy 
black : legs flesh-colour. 
It is very destructive to the plantations of rice, which is its principal 
food, and from thence called the Padda; and is remarkable for the deli 
cacy of its plumage, which is so perfectly regular and soft, that no one 
feather projects beyond another, but they appear like a fine silky down, 
covered with a farina, or bloom. 
