BIRDS OF THE BAHAMA ISLANDS. 
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FAM. FRINGILLIDAZ. 
FINCHES. 
LOXIGILLA VIOL ACE A. (Linn.) 
Purple Grosbeak. 
Local Name. — Spanish Paroquet. 
Winter Plumage , Male. — Entire plumage black, showing a 
slight brownish tinge upon the quills, throat, crissum, and a crescent 
over the eye, reddish brown ; bill and legs, black. 
Whiter Plumage, Female . — Upper parts, gray, with a tinge of 
olive-green upon the back ; below, ash, lightest upon the belly, show- 
ing a tinge of olive upon the breast and sides ; quills with fine 
edgings of dull white; crissum, a crescent over the eye, and mark- 
ings upon the chin, pale reddish brown, much lighter than in the 
male ; under mandible pale. Immature birds resemble the female. 
Length 6, wing 3, tail 2.85, tarsus, .80, bill .50. 
The Purple Grosbeak, or Spanish Paroquet as it is called by the 
negroes, is abundant throughout the Bahama Islands. Upon every 
island of any size which we visited, the thick undergrowth resounded 
