GROSBEAK 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Bill thick, convex above and below ; lower mandible bent 
on one side. 
Nostrils small and round. 
Tongue entire. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Loxia Abyssinica. . L. flavescens, vertice temporibus gut- 
ture et pectore nigris, humeris nigri- 
cantibus, remigibus xectricibusque 
fuscis_, margine flavis. Linn. Syst. 
Nat. Gmel. 1 . p. 860. 
Body yellow 5 the top and sides of the 
head, the throat and the breast are 
black : scapular feathers blackish : 
wing and tail feathers brown with a 
yellow margin. 
Abyssinian Grosbeak. Buff. Birds, 3. p. 429. Lath. Syn. 1 . 
p. 131. n, 31. 
Most of the loxia genus are famous for their in- 
genuity in contriving their habitations. Some, as 
we have already seen, live together in large so- 
cieties, and build their nests under one common 
roof in the body of a tree ; while others, who are 
