WHITE HEADED GROSBEAK. 
Loxia Maca. 
Le Maca de la Chine. 
Le Maian. 
Malacca Grosbeak. 
White headed Grosbeak. 
Lyn. Syst. i. p. 3 0 \ . No. 1 1 . 
Briss. Orn. iii. p. 2 1 2. No. 65. pi. 9. 
fig- 2 - 
Buff. Ois. iv. p. 107. pi. 3 . 
Edw. pi. 3 0 6. fig. 1. 
Lath. Gen. Syn. ii. p. 2. 1 5 1 . 
The Count de Buffon has described this bird under the character of Maca, 
and considers it as a variety of the Grosbeak of Senegal. His subject differs 
from that which was preserved in the Osterley Menagery, in having the 
head as well as the belly black. 
It inhabits Malacca and China, and most probably all the intermediate 
countries. It differs materially from the American Maca, or Cuba Finch, 
which it approaches most nearly; but there are distinctions which authorize 
our classing it as a separate species. 
The head and neck are of a dusky white ; all the upper part of the body, 
wings, and tail, are of a reddish chesnut colour; the breast pale chesnut; 
the belly and vent dusky; the bill and legs lead colour. 
Although nature has not adorned this bird with any of its choicest, or 
richest colours, and though in point of brilliancy of plumage it fell far 
short of many of its feathered companions, yet it formed a very pleasing 
variety in this most elegant Collection, and was a very lively and fami- 
liar bird. 
