436 
FEMALE ROSE-BREASTED GROSBEAK. 
feather on each side has, on the inner vane, towards the tip, a 
large, roundish, white spot, which seems disposed to become 
obliterated, as it is much more marked on one, than on that of 
the other side which corresponds to it, and does not exist in all 
specimens ; a similar spot is perceptible on the second tail- 
feather, where it is, however, nearly obliterated ; the feet are 
flesh colour, the nails blackish, the tarsus measuring three 
quarters of an inch. 
No difference of any consequence is observable between the 
sexes ; though it might be said that the female is a little less 
in size, and rather duller in plumage. 
FEMALE ROSE-BREASTED GROSBEAK FRINGILLA 
LUDOVICIANA.— -Plate XV. Fig. 2. 
See JRose-breasted Grosbeak, Loxia rosea (ludoviciana) Wils. Am. Orn. ii. p. 135,. 
pi. 17, fig. 1, for tlie male.— Loxia ludoviciana, Linn. Syst. i. p. 806, sp. 38. 
Gmel. Syst. i. p. 862, sp. 38. Lath. Ind. p. 379, sp. 25. — Fringilla punicea, 
Gmel. Syst. i. p. 921, sp. 81. Lath. Ind. p. 444, sp. 34, adult male. — Loxia 
maculata, Gmel. Syst. i. p. 861, sp. 87. Lath. Ind. p. 379, sp. 26, young. — 
Loxia obscura, Gmel. i. p. 862, sp. 88. Lath. Ind. p. 379, sp. 27, female 
Coccotbraustes ludoviciana, Briss. Orn. iii. p. 247, sp. 14, pi. 12, fig. 2. Id^ 
8vo, i. p. 378 Coccotbraustes rubricollis, Vieill. Gal. Ois. i. part ii. p. 67, pi. 
58, (very bad,) and Diet. — Pyrrbula ludoviciana, Sabins, Zool. App. to Frankl. 
Exp. p. 675. — Fringilla ludoviciana. Nob. Obs. Nom. Wils. Orn. sp. 80. Id.. 
Cat. Birds U. S. sp. 189. Id. Syn. Birds U. S. sp. 189. — Guii-aca ludovi- 
ciana, Swainson, Syn. Mex. Birds, sp. 76, in Phil. Mag. N. S. i. p. 438 — Le 
Rose-gorge, Buff. Ois. iii. p. 460. — Gros-bec de la Louislane, Buff. PI. Enl. 
153, fig. 2, male.— Moineau a poitrine et ventre pourpres, Sonn. Buff, xlviii. p. 
240. — Red-breasted Grosbeak, Penn. Arct. Zool. sp. 212. Lath. Syn. iii. p. 
126, sp. 24. — Red-breasted Fincb. Penn. Arct. Zml. sp. 275. Lath. Syn. iii. 
p. 272, sp. 30, adult male. — Dusky Grosbeak, Penn. Arct, Zool. sp. 216. Lath. 
Syn. iii. p. 127, sp. 26, female. — Spotted Grosbeak, Penn. Arct. Zool. sp. 213. 
Lath. Syn. iii. p, 126, sp. 25, young. Philadelphia Museum, No. 5806, male; 
5807, female. 
G UIRA CA LUDO VICIANA.—SvfAiNsoN. 
See vol. i. p. 277. 
Though several figures have been published of the very 
showy male rose-breasted grosbeak, the humble plumage of 
