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The Gr os-Beak, or Haw-Finch. 
HP H E Bird is here figur’d as big as Life : They are not Natives of England t 
Jj^ though fome of them are found with us in hard Winters. What is mod ex¬ 
traordinary in it is, the Shape of the Tips of fome of the Middle-Quills of the Wings, 
which turn out with Points like fome Antique Battle-Axes, better underffood by their 
Form ex.preffed 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 encompaiTed 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 5 the Flinder-part of the Neck is of a 
bluifh 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 
Bloffom-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 blackColour, 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 
lad: defcribed brown Quills, an oblique Line acrofs the Wing ; the Ridge of the 
Wing, next the Bread:, is White ; the defier 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 Flefh-Colour, formed as the Figure exprefies. 
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 
Good-wood , in SufJ'ex , where it was fhot on a Pine-Tree; for which Reafon I have 
placed it on the Cedar of Libanus, 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 , P. 244. Albin has given a Figure of 
it alfo, and a Defcription modcly extracted from Willughby. See his Hiforyof Birds , 
Vol. I. P. 54. The Germans call it Kern-beifer. Mr. N. Robert has made a Print 
of it, and calls it Pardalns, Gros-bec , or Pinfo-royal. Willughby gives it the Latin 
Name, Ccccothraufes Vulgaris , 
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