FASCIATED GROSBEAK. 
Loxia Fasciata. 
This bird is a native of Africa, and was presented to Lady Ducie under 
the character of the Cut-throat Sparrow . It has been described by Browne, 
from a bird in the late Mr. Tuns tail’s Collection, and was at that time 
considered as a very rare species ; but they are not so at present, as I have 
seen several in the late Earl of Sandwich’s magnificent Collection, as well 
as at Osterley. 
It is represented the size of life ; the bill is bluish grey ; the head, the 
hinder part of the neck, the back, and coverts of the wings, pale brown, 
marked with some circular black lines : the throat and cheeks white, 
bounded beneath with a rich band of crimson, edged with a black line; 
the breast and belly of a pale brown, faintly marked with semicircular 
lines of darker brown. The legs are flesh colour. 
