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The Gros-Beak, or Haw-Finch. 
^ H E Bird is here figur’d as big as Life : They are not Natives of England^ 
1 though fome of them are found with us in hard Winters,. What is moil ex- 
traordinary in it is, the Shape of the Tips of fome ot the Middle-Quills of the Wings, 
which turn out with Points like fome Antique Battle-Axes, better underdood by their 
Form exprefled in the Figure, than by Words : This Particular no one has yet taken 
Notice of. 
The Bill is very large in Proportion, and fhort for its Thicknefs, of a light Flefh- 
Colour, but Dufky at the Point, which is pretty fharp ; the Noftrils are partly co- 
ver’d by the Feathers at the Bafe of the Bill ; the Bill is encompafled all round with 
a Border of black Feathers, narrow above, and near an Inch deep on the Throat; a 
black Line alfo paffes from the Sides of the Bill to the Eyes. The Irides of the Eyes 
are of a whitifh Afh-Colour ; the Head, and Rump, or Feathers that cover the Tail, 
are of a pleafant, light-brownifh, red Colour ; the Hinder-part of the Neck is of a 
bluilh Afh-Colour ; the Back is of a dark, dufky Brown. The Fore-part of the 
Neck, the Bread:, Belly and Thighs, are of a pale, pleafant Brown, inclining to a 
Blofifom-Colour ; the lower Belly and Covert-Feathers under the Tail are White. 
The outer or Prime-Quills are Black ; (the inner Webs have fome White in them, 
which juft appears when the Wing is let down a little, as in the Pofition I have drawn 
it in) the Middle-Quills are of a dark, or black Colour, with a fine fhiningGlofs of bluifh 
Purple, and are very remarkable for the Form of their Tips ; the inner Quills next 
the Back are of a reddifh-brown Colour; the firft Row of Covert-Feathers is White 
on the upper Part, and becomes gradually more Brown, and forms together with the 
laft defcribed brown Quills, an oblique Line acrofs the Wing ; the. Ridge of the 
Wing, next the Bread:, is White ; the leffer Covert-Feathers of the Wings are Black ; 
the Coverts within Side of the Wings are White, with a little Mixture of Black 
about the Ridge of the Wing. The Middle-Feathers of the Tail are Brown, the outer 
Feathers have their outer Webs Brown, and their inner Webs Black towards their 
Bottoms, and are White at their Tips,' fo that the Tail when clofed is Brown above, but 
appears beautifully mixed with Brown, Black and White, when fpread. The Legs 
and Feet are of a pleafant, ruddy Flefli-Colour, formed as the Figure exprefles. 
I have figur’d this Bird at the Defire of his Grace the late Duke of Richmond, (my 
mod noble Patron, whofe Lofs I fincerely lament,) who fent it me from his Seat at 
Goodwood , in Sufj'ex , where it was Ihot on a Pine-Tree; for which Reafon I have 
placed it on the Cedar of Libanus 3 taken from Nature in the Phyfick- Garden of 
Chelfea , but reduced to half its Magnitude to bring it into the Plate. See Mr. Wil- 
lughbf s Account of this Bird in his Ornithology , T. 244. Albin has. given a Figure of 
it alfo, and a Defcription modly extracted from Wilhighby. See his Hijloryoj Birds , 
VoL I. T. 54. The Germans call it Kern-beifler. Mr. N. Robert lias made a Print 
of it, and calls it Pardalus , Gros-bec , or B info-royal, Willughby gives it the Latin 
Name, Coccothraufles Vulgaris . 
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