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The female is lefs brilliant in colour.—There is a variety 
of this fpecies, of a much brighter green ; and both in¬ 
habit the Cape of Good Hope. 
55. Loxia collaria, the collared grofbeak. Length four 
inches and a half. Bill black; the forehead bare; the 
top of the head and upper part of the body, greenifh-blue; 
temples black; under parts and rump rufous white; 
round the neck ahandfome collar of the fame; acrofs the 
bread: a mottled black band ; wings rufous yellow and 
black, mixed; tail black ; legs pale brown. Inhabits the 
Eaft Indies.—There is a variety of this fame fpecies pe¬ 
culiar to Angola. 
56. Loxia grifea, the grey grofbeak. Size of the tit- 
moufe ; length four inches ; bill dark brown ; neck, and 
fore part of the head, white; the rell of the body blue 
grey; legs red. Inhabits Virginia. 
57. Loxia Bengalenfis, the Bengal grofbeak: length 
five inches and a half. Bill flefli-colour ; irides whitifh ; 
the top of the head of a golden yellow ; the upper parts 
of the body brown, with paler edges ; fides of the head 
and under parts rufous white; acrofs the bread a broad 
band, uniting to, and of. the fame colour with, the upper 
parts of the body ; legs pale yellow. The female is like 
the male in all things; except that the colours are much 
lefs vivid. Native of Bengal. 
“This bird,” fays fir William Jones, “is exceedingly 
common in Hindooftan ; he is aftonifhingly fenfible, faith¬ 
ful, and docile; never voluntarily deferring the place 
where his young are hatched, but not averfe, like mod 
other birds, to the fociety of mankind ; and eafily taught 
to perch on the hand of his mader. In a date of nature 
he generally builds his ned on the highed tree he can 
find ; efpecially on the Palmyra, or on the Indian fig- 
tree ; and he prefers that which happens to overhang a 
well or a rivulet: he makes it of grafs, which he Weaves 
like cloth, and fhapes like a bottle, fufpending it firmly 
on the branches; but fo as to rock with the wir.ri, and 
placing it with its entrance downward, to fecure it from 
the birds of prey. His ned ufually confids of two or three 
chambers 3. and it is popularly believed that he lights 
them with fire-flies, which he is faid to catch alive at 
night, and confine with moifl clay or with cow-dung. 
That fuch flies are often found in his ned, where pieces 
of cow-dung are alfo duck, is indubitable ; but, as their 
light could be of little ufe to him, it feems probable that 
he only feeds on them, tie may be taught with eafe to 
fetch a piece of paper, or any fmall thing that his mader 
points out to him. It is an atteded fa< 5 t, that, if a ring 
be dropped into a deep well, and a fignal be given to 
him, he will fly down with amazing celerity, catch the 
ring before it touches the water, and bring it up to his 
mader with apparent exultation ;*nnd it is confidently af- 
ferted, that if a houfe, or any other place, be fliown to 
him once or twice, he will carry a note thither immedi¬ 
ately on a proper fignal being made. The young Hindoo 
women at Benares, and in other places, wear very thin 
plates of gold called ticas, (lightly fixed, by way of orna¬ 
ment, between their eye-brows ; and, when they pafs 
through the dreets, it is not uncommon for the youthful 
libertines, who amufe themfelves with training thefe birds, 
to give them a fignal which they underdand, and fend 
them to pluck the pieces of gold from the foreheads of 
their midrefles, which they bring in triumph to their 
levers.” 
58. Loxia Malabarica, the Malabar grofbeak. Size and 
fhape of a titmoufe. Bill black ; throat white; body ci¬ 
nereous ; quills and tail black ; vent whitifh. Inhabits 
the Ead Indies, Malabar, &c. 
59. Loxia A fra, the black-bellied grofbeak : head, fides, 
and coverts of the tail, of a rich yellow', mixed with light 
brown; chin, bread, and belly, black; wings and tail 
brownifh ; bill black. Inhabits Africa. 
60. Loxia Caffra, the Caffre grofbeak : general plumage 
velvet black; wing-coverts blood red; quill-feathers 
brown, edged with white j legs grey; bill brown, Na« 
Vox,. XIII. No, 939. 
tive of CafFrarla, and brought from the Cape of Good 
Hope. 
61. Loxia totta, the totty or Hottentot grofbeak. Length 
four inches. Bill nearly white ; forehead greenifh brown; 
the crown of the head, hind part of the neck, and upper 
wing-coverts, teftaceous brown ; the under parts of the 
body brownifh white ; the quills and tail black, and the 
feathers of both tipped with white; tail forked at the 
end ; feet black. Found in the Hottentots’ country, in 
the neighbourhood of the Cape of Good Hope, and in 
India. 
62. Loxia cinerea, the afh-headed grofbeak: blackifh, 
beneath whitifh; head and neck cinereous ; tail tipt with 
white. Bill and legs blue. Inhabits India: very fmall. 
This is from Dr. Turtoti, who calls it Indica, having 
changed the name of L. Indica to L. Boetonenfis. 
63. Loxia Afiatica, the Afiatic grofbeak. Size of. a 
bullfinch. Bill yellow ; head black ; plumage on the up¬ 
per parts of a redd ifh afh-colour; beneath cinereous; belly- 
pale red ; the greater wing-coverts, quills, and tips of the 
tail, black ; the lad forked in fliape ; legs red. Inhabits 
China, where it is called lap-tzoy. 
64. Loxia can.ora, the brown-cheeked grofbeak : bill 
dout, thick, dufky ; cheeks brown, furrounded by a bor¬ 
der of yellow, reaching beyond the ears, and beginning at 
the throat; the reft of the head, back, wings, and tail, 
pale dirty green ; bread and belly cinereous; legs whitifii. 
Inhabits Mexico. 
65. Loxia lineata, the driated grofbeak. Size of a lin¬ 
net ; length four inches. Bill dout, thick, and white; 
bead, neck, bread, fmall, wing-coverts, and tail, black ; 
fecondaries, fides the body, and half of the prime quills, 
driated with black and white; belly and vent white; legs 
dufky. 
66. Loxia perl.ata, the pearl-coloured grofbeak. Size of 
a wren. Head, and upper parts of the body, black ; be¬ 
neath brown ; with an agreeable mixture of black and 
pearl-colour-towards the thighs and tail. Inhabits Whi- 
dah in Africa ; lives on grain ; and has an agreeable note. 
67. Loxia fafeiata, the fafeiated grofbeak. Length four 
inches and a half. Bill bluifh grey ; crown, hind part of 
the neck, the back, and fmaller wing-coverts, pale brown, 
marked with femicircular lines of black; cheeks plain 
brown, bounded beneath with a rich crimfon band, under 
which is a black line; bread and belly pale brown, 
flightly marked with femicircular lines; quills and tail 
brown; legs flefli-colour. Inhabits Africa. 
68 . Loxia cantans, the warbling grofbeak. Length four 
inches. Bill dufky ; plumage on the upper parts brown, 
marked with narrow dufky lines; belly white; tail deep 
brown; legs bluiflr. Inhabits Africa; and laid to fin<*’ 
well. 
69. Loxia melanocephala, the Gambia grofbeak. Length 
fix inches and a quarter. Bill cinereous ; irides black ; 
head, throat, and fore-part of the neck, black; red of the 
body yellow, mixed with green; legs bluifh afh-colour. 
Native of Gambia in Africa. 
70. Loxia erythromelas, the black-headed grofbeak. 
Length nine inches. Bill very dout, one inch long, and 
black; at the middle of the edge of the upper mandible 
a fharp procefs, and a notch on the under one partly cor- 
refponding with it; the bafe white; head and throat black ; 
general colour of the plumage deep crimfon, inclining to 
pink on the under parts ; quills and tail of a dufky red ; 
legs brown. The female has the head and throat black; 
the upper part of the body greenifh orange, with a mixture 
of red ; fides of the neck of a deep orange red, quills 
olive-green, with the outer edges rufous. Inhabits Cay¬ 
enne. 
71. Loxia coronata, the crowned grofbeak. Larger than 
our bullfinch. Bill white, half an inch long; on the head 
is a full black cred ; the upper parts of the body, wings, 
and tail, are Icarlet ; the under blue ; on the middle of 
the fore-part of the neck a black fpot. Inhabits America. 
72. Loxia cana 3 the cinereous grofbeak. Size of a Jin* 
8 Q net. 
