FEMALE ROSE-BREASTED GROSBEAK. 
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by comparing this with the Evening Grosbeak) being much less 
thick and turgid, and higher than broad; the upper mandible 
being larger than the lower, and covering its margins entirely, 
compressed on the sides, making the ridge very distinct, (not 
rounded above) and curved from the base, but at tip especially: 
the margins of both are angular. The representation of the 
bill in Wilson’s plate of the male is remarkably exact. 
