278 
FRINGILLA CLERULEA, 
swamp, a few miles from Philadelphia. Another male 
of the same species was killed at the same time, consi- 
derably different in its markings ; a proof that they do 
not acquire their full colours until at least the second 
spring or summer. 
The rose-breasted grosbeak is eight inches and a half 
long, and thirteen inches in extent ; the whole upper 
parts are black, except the second row of wing- coverts, 
which are broadly tipt with white ; a spot of the same 
extends over the primaries, immediately below their 
coverts ; chin, neck, and upper part of the breast, 
black ; lower part of the breast, middle of the belly, 
and lining of the wings, a fine light carmine, or rose 
colour; tail, forked, black, the three exterior feathers, 
on each side, white on their inner vanes for an inch or 
more from the tips ; bill, like those of its tribe, very 
thick and strong, and pure white ; legs and feet, light 
blue ; eyes, hazel. The young male of the first spring 
has the plumage of the back variegated with light 
brown, white and black ; a line of white extends over 
the eye ; the rose colour also reaches to the base of 
the bill, where it is speckled with black and white. 
The female is of a light yellowish flaxen colour, streaked 
with dark olive, and whitish ; the breast is streaked 
with olive, pale flaxen, and white ; the lining of the 
wings is pale yellow ; the bill, more dusky than in the 
male, and the white on the wing less. 
182. FRINGILLA CMRULEA , BONAP. — LOXIA CJERULFA , WILS. 
BLUE GROSBEAK. 
WILSON, PLATE XXIV. FIG. VI. 
This solitary and retired species inhabits the warmer 
parts of America, from Guiana, and probably farther 
south,* to Virginia. Mr Bartram also saw it during a 
summer’s residence near Lancaster, Pennsylvania. In 
the United States, however, it is a scarce species ; and 
* Latham, ii. p. 116. 
