Order PASSERIFORMES. 
No. 99. 
Family M USCICA PII)A. 
LOXIA FASGINANS. 
TURDUS V OLITANS. 
(Plate 74.) 
Loxia fascinans Latham, Index Ornith., Snppl., p. xlyi., 1801. 
Fascinating Grosbeak Latham, Gen. Syn. Birds, Suppl. n., p. 197, 1801. 
I have had a drawing made of the type of fascinans Latham to show that it has 
no connection with the bird so called for many years. The bill shows its relation 
to a Finch, and the genus Loxia, into which Latham put it, makes it impossible 
to consider it a Fly-catcher ( Cf., Mathews, Birds Austr., Vol. VIII., pt. 1, 
p. 63, pi. 376. May 5th, 1920). 
I have in my possession a book of drawings made for George Robert Gray, 
copied from the Lambert drawings. 
Compare Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Vol. XI., 1843, pp. 189-194, where about 
thirty of these are not identified by Gray. 
These drawings are numbered. 
Loxia fascinans Latham is founded on the Fascinating Grosbeak of his Gen. 
Synops. Birds, Suppl. ii., p. 197, 1801. Lambert drawing, Vol. I., pi. 58. 
Size of a Bullfinch, but longer ; the plumage on the upper-parts in 
general dusky-black, inclining to brown ; the under white ; one or more 
of the outer tail-feathers white ; bill and legs dusky. 
Inhabits New Holland ; at Port Jackson is called the smaller fascinating 
bird, having the manners exactly of the Fascinating Thrush. 
Turdus volitans Latham is founded on the Volatile Thrush described on p. 183, 
Lambert drawing, Vol. I., pi. 59. 
Length nine inches ; shape slender ; bill rather slight and black ; the 
head, neck, upper-parts of the body and tail are black; the under-parts 
of the body white ; tail long and even at the end, and the wings when closed 
reach to the middle of it; legs slender, dusky. 
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