5 °4» T*he Biflory of ANIMALS. 
This is a native of many parts of Europe, but we have it not in England j it lives 
principally in woods. Gefner calls it Garrulus Bohemicus ; Aldrovand, Ampelis \ 
Jonfton, and many others, Picae glandarise fpecies. t 
Ampelis dorfo grifeo , macula ad oculos longitudinals 
The grey-beaked Ampelis , with a longitudinal fpot at the eyes . 
This is a bird ftrangely mifplaced, as to it’s genus, by the generality of the nature- 
lifts, moft of them making it a kind of hawk j the bird is about the bignefs of a 
lark : the head is moderately large and depreffed ; the eyes are bright and piercing, and 
their iris hazel; the beak is black, long, ftrong, and hooked at the end, and near the 
curvature there are two appendages, one on each fide 5 the mouth is yellow within, 
and the fifth re of the palate hairy. 
There are a number of ftiort, black briftles about the noftrils and the angles of the 
mouth j the back is of a ferrugineous brown, and fo are the fmaller covering feathers 
of the wings: the head is grey, and fo is the rump } from the beak, on each fide, 
there runs a longitudinal black ftreak along by the eyes, to the back part of the head: 
at the extremity of this fpot there is a white one, ferving to divide it from the grey : 
the belly is white, and the throat and breaft are alfo white, but they have a tinge of 
red diffufed over them : the wings are moderately long; the tail is competed of twelve 
feathers, the middle ones longeft ; thefe are totally black, the others are more or lei's 
variegated with white: the legs are black, or of a very deep blue. 
It is a native of England, but is not very common with us j it feeds on beetles, 
flies, and other infedts. All the writers on birds have defcribed it. Willughby calls it 
Lanius tertius; others, Lanius minor rufus. 
Ampelis ccerulefcens alis caudaque nigricantibus . 
The bluifh Lanius^ with the wings and tail black. 
This is of the fize of the common black-bird : the head is fmall and flatted j the 
eyes are bright and piercing, and their iris yellow; the beak is oblong, and fomewhat 
hooked at the extremity : the head is of a very dark blue grey, approaching to black, 
and there is a line of abfolute black pafting from the angles of the beak, to the hinder 
part of the head : the back alfo is of the fame dark blue grey, and the breaft and 
belly are of the fame colour, only paler: the long feathers of the wings have their 
tips white : the tail is black, and the legs and feet are black. 
The bird is frequent in fome parts of England. All the writers on thefe fubjedis have 
mentioned it. Willughby calls it Lanius cinereus major; others, Collurio major. 
L O X I A. 
f I \H E beak of the Loxia is large, thick, and fhort, crooked, convex each way, 
j[ and the upper chap of it is moveable, as well as the under: the tongue is en¬ 
tire and undivided. 
Loxia linea alarum duplici alba . )t dStOfe- 
The Loxia , with a double line of white on the wings. &£&!$+ 
This is larger than the common fparrow : the head is large and round ; the beak is 
remarkably large, thick at the bafe, and pointed at the extremity; of a conic figure, 
and of a reddifh or whitilh colour: the eyes are large, and their iris is grey; the front 
of the head is of an orange colour, and between that and the eyes it is black : the reft 
of the head is of a reddilh-brown, with fome tinge of yellow; the neck is grey ; 
the back is of a reddilh-brown, but the middle part of all the feathers is whitilh: the 
breaft 
