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FEMALE ROSE-BREASTED GROSBEAK. 
FRINGILLA LUDOVICIANA. 
Plate XV. Fig. 2. • 
See Hose-breasted Grosbeak, Loxia rosea, ( ludoviciana :) Wils. Jim. Orn. II ; p. 135 5 PI 
17, Fig. 1, for the Male. 
Loxia ludoviciana, Link. Syst. I, p. 306, Sp. 38. Gmel. Syst. I, p. 862, Sp. 38. Lath. 
Ind. p. 379, Sp. 25. 
Fringilla punicea, Gmel. Syst. I, p. 921, Sp. 81. Lath. Ind. p. 444, Sp. 34, adult male. 
Loxia maculata, Gmel. Syst. I, p. 861, Sp. 87. Lath. Ind. p. 379, Sp. 26, young. 
Loxia obscura, Gmel. I, p. 862, Sp. 88. Lath. Ind. p. 379, Sp. 27, female. 
Coccothraustes ludoviciana , Briss. Orn. Ill, p. 247, Sp. 14, PI. 12, Fig. 2. Id. 8vo. 
I, p. 378. 
Coccothraustes rubricollis, Yieill. Gal. Ois. I, Pt. II, p. 67, PI. 58 (very bad), and Did. 
Pyrrhula ludoviciana , Sabine, Zool. JLpp. to Frankl. Exp. p. 675. 
Fringilla ludoviciana, Nob. Ohs. Nom. Wils. Orn. Sp. 80. Id. Cat. Birds U. S. Sp. 
189. Id. Syn. Birds U. S. Sp. 189. 
Guiraca ludoviciana, Swainson, Syn. Mex. Birds, Sp. 76, in Phil. Mag. N. S. I, p. 438. 
Le Rose-gorge, Buff. Ois. Ill, p. 460. 
Gros-bec de la Louisiane, Buff. PI. enl. 153, Fig. 2, male. 
Moineau a poitrine et ventre pourpres, Sonn. Buff. XL VIII, p. 240. 
Red-breasted Grosbeak, Penn. Jlrd. Zool. Sp. 212. Lath. Syn. III,p. 126, Sp. 24. 
Red-breasted Finch, Penn. Jlrd. Zool. Sp. 275. Lath. Syn. Ill, p. 272, Sp. 30, adult male. 
Dusky Grosbeak, Penn. Jlrd. Zool. Sp. 216. Lath. Syn. Ill, p. 127, Sp. 26, female. 
Spotted Grosbeak, Penn. Jirct. Zool. Sp.213. Lath. Syn. Ill, p. 126, Sp. 25, young. 
Philadelphia Museum, No. 5806, Male; 5807, Female. 
Though several figures have been published of the very showy 
male Rose-breasted Grosbeak, the humble plumage of the female 
and young has never been represented. It would however have 
