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white, forming two bars of the fame on the wing ; quills 
and tail deep blue a(h, tipped with grey ; the legs flefh- 
colour. Native of Angola. 
22. Loxia maja, the white-headed grofbeak. Length 
four inches. Bill grey brown, paleft beneath ; head and 
rseck dirty white; upper parts of the body, wings, and 
tail, chefnut brown ; belly and vent blackifh ; fecond and 
fourth quills white; legs grey. Inhabits Malacca and 
China. 
23. Loxia flavicans, the yellow grofbeak : fize of a ca¬ 
nary-bird. Bill fhort and thick, the bafe going far back 
on the forehead ; head, neck, bread, belly, and vent, yel¬ 
low ; top of the head the fame, but paler; back, wings, 
and tail, greenifh yellow ; bend of the wing deep yellow ; 
quills and tail margined with yellow ; legs pale. Native 
of Afia. 
24. Loxia Bonarienfis, the marigold grofbeak. Length 
feven inches. Bill black, fhort, ifrong, and convex ; the 
under mandible paler; the noftrils are round, placed at 
the bafe, and perforated; the head, and upper part of the 
neck, blue; the body blackifh 5 the throat, fore part of 
the neck, and bread, of the colour of a marigold ; the 
belly and vent brimftone-colour; quills and tail blackifh, 
edged with blue; legs red; the middle and outer toe 
united as far as the fird joint; all of them fharp, bent, 
and channelled. This inhabits Buenos Ayres, where it 
is rarely feen till September ; it frequents cultivated places 
and gardens; feen in pairs, and apparently very much at¬ 
tached to each other; feeds on grafs and on feeds. 
25. Loxia oryzivora, the rice-bird, or Java grofbeak. 
Length five inches. Bill ftout and red ; eye-lids of the 
fame colour; the head and throat black; fides of the head 
under the eyes white ; upper parts of the body,' neck, and 
bread, pale afh-colour; belly and thighs pale rofe-colour ; 
the vent and under tail-coverts nearly white ; the tail 
black ; legs flefh-coloured. The female has the bill and 
eye-lids very pale red, and wants the white on the cheeks ; 
but the edge of the wing is white as well as the under tail- 
coverts. This fpecies is met with at Java and the Cape of 
Good Hope, where it does much damage to the rice- 
grounds. It is probably a Chinefe bird likewife, as we 
often meet'with it in paper-hangings from that country; 
and Latham thinks this the more likely, as he has feen it 
among fome Chinefe paintings, in which it bore the name 
of hung-tzoy. 
26. Loxia flabellifera, the fan-tailed grofbeak. Length 
about five inches. Bill dout and dufky ; the upper parts 
of the body reddifh-brown, paled on the rump; the un¬ 
der the fame, but fomewhat paler, and more inclined to 
red ; quills, tail, and legs, dufky. One of thefe birds had 
a grey bread and belly. They inhabit Virginia, where 
they are called fan-tails ; and continually carry the tail 
fpread in a horizontal direction, as reprefented on the 
Plate at fig. 4 - 
27. Loxia panicivora, the white-winged grofbeak. Size 
of the hawfinch; length feven inches and a quarter; bill 
half an inch, grey ; the eyes black, as is the whole plu¬ 
mage, except a fpot of white on the wing-coverts; the 
legs are alh-coloured. Native of Africa. 
28. Loxia Malacca, the Malacca grofbeak. Length 
four inches and a quarter. Bill bluifh afh-colour; irides 
black; head, neck, middle of the belly, thighs, and un¬ 
der tail-coverts, black; bread, and fides of the belly, 
white; back, wings, and tail, chefnut; legs brown. 
The female has the thighs chefnut, and the colours are 
lefs vivid. Native of java. 
There is a beautiful variety found in China, with the 
bead, throat, and fore part of the neck, black ; the reft of 
the plumage chefnut; bill and legs cinereous. The female 
lias the top of the head, and upper.parts, cinereous brown ; 
fides! of the head, and under parts, reddifh white; quills 
and tail blackilh : legs fiefh-colour. Thefe birds are alfo 
found in India. 
29. Loxia Molucca, the Molucca grofbeak. Length 
four inches. Bill dulky 5 the fore-part of the head, and 
fides and fore-part of the neck, black ; hind part of the 
head, and upper parts, brown ; rump, and under parts, 
from the bread, tranfverfely barred with black and white- 
the upper tail-coverts, and tail, black ; the quills deep 
brown ; legs brown. Inhabits the Molucca Ifles. 
30. Loxia pun-ffularia, the cowry, or punftulated grof¬ 
beak. Length four inches and a quarter. Bill dufky; 
fore-part of the head, and fides, throat, and fore-part of 
the neck, chefnut; hind part of the head, and reft of the 
upper parts, rufous brown ; the rump.feathers edged with 
grey ; bread and fides dufky, marked with cordated white 
fpots;_ middle of the belly, and vent, white; legs dufky. 
Inhabits the ifiand of Java. 
31. Loxia undulata, the undulated grofbeak. Size of 
the preceding ; length fix inches. Bill dufky, fhort, and 
ftout, as in the bullfinch ; head, neck, and back, red 
brown; beneath, from the breaft, undulated with dulky; 
vent yellowifh ; tail pale reddifh afh-colour ; legs dufky. 
Brought from India. 
32. Loxia hordeacea, the yellow-rumped grofbeak. Size 
of the Motacilla alba, or wagtail. The head, neck, and 
rump, fulvous; temples white; from thence to the bill, 
the breaft, wings, and tail, black; fhoulders, thighs, vent, 
and margins of the tail-feathers, grey. Native of India. 
33. Loxia fanguiniroftris, the red-billed grofbeak. A 
fmall fpecies. Bill thick, bare at the bafe, and of a deep 
blood red ; forehead black ; the head, n?ck, back, and 
wings, grey brown ; breaft, belly, and bend of the wing, 
yellowifh white; quills and tail brown; legs pale red. 
Inhabits Africa and Ada. 1 
34. Loxia aftrild, the waxbill. Size of a wren ; only 
four inches and a quarter in length. Bill gibbous at the 
bafe, and of a deep red colour ; a ftreak of red pafles 
through the eye, and the middle of the breaft and belly 
is of the fame colour; the upper parts of the body are 
brown, the under reddifh grey, crofted with tranfverfe 
blackilh lines ; quills and tail brown ; crofted with lines 
of darker brown ; legs brown. They inhabit the Canary 
I (lands, Madeira, Senegal, Angola, the Cape of Good 
Hope, and India. This fmall fpecies is fhown at fig. 5. 
There are two other varieties of this bird, which in- 
habit Benguela, and Senegal, in Africa. In the firft va¬ 
riety the rump is red ; the under parts incline to yellow, 
and have the fides of the rump and wing-coverts fpotted 
with white; the bafe of the bill bordered with black. 
One of thefe was brought from the Ifle of France, by 
M. Sonnerat. Others have the under parts of a pale yel¬ 
low ; neither the bill nor rump red; the legs yellowifh 
and totally without white fpots ; perhaps of a different 
fex. There is alfo in fome birds a tinge of red on the 
bread, and fore-part of the neck ; and the tail fomewhat 
longer in proportion. Thefe are found at the Cape of 
Good Hope'. 
The other variety has a white rump; bill red ; through 
the eyes a ftreak of the fame; throat, and fides of the 
neck, bluifh white; the reft of the under-parts of the 
body, and rump, rofe-coloured white, more or lefs deep; 
the top of the head, neck, and back-, blue, lighted 011 
the head ; wings brown ; tail blackifh ; legs red. Inha¬ 
bits Senegal. 
35. Loxia leucum, the white-tailed waxbill. Length 
only three inches. Bill like red fealing-wax ; head and 
wing-coverts cinereous; back of a rich yellow; breaft 
and belly pale yellow; tail white; the two outer feathers 
black ; legs fiefn-colour. Inhabits Brafil. 
36. Loxia cyanea, the azure grofbeak. This is about 
the fize of the hawfinch ; and is a native of Ano-ola, 
The general colour of the plumage is a fine lively azure 
blue, brighteft on the head and bread; the quill-feathers, 
tail, and legs, black. 
37. Loxia virens, the blue-fhouldered grofbeak. The 
general colour of this bird is green; but the wing-coverts 
on the fhoulders are blue ; the quills and tail black, with 
greenifh margins. Native of Surinam, 
38. Loxia Angolenlis, the Angola grofbeak. Size of 
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