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STRIATED GROSBEAK. 
Loxia striata. Lyn. Syst. i. p. 3 0 6. No. 37. 
Le Gros-bec de L’Isle de 
Bourbon. Bris. Orn. iii. p. 2 4 3. No. l 1 . 
Striated Grosbeak. Lath. Gen. Syn. ii. p. 14 2. No. 4g. 
This bird is something larger, and thicker than the Wren, measuring 
from the point of the bill to the end of the tail almost four inches ; its alar 
extent is almost six inches. 
The upper mandible of the bill is dusky, the under mandible grey, the 
head and upper part of the bird is brown, the shaft of each feather being 
rufous ; the throat and fore-part of the neck dusky ; the scapulares, the 
coverts of the wings, and tail, are brown, with the shaft of each feather 
rufous ; the breast and belly white ; the thighs and coverts under the tail 
brown ; the legs blackish. 
