. A general synopsis of birds . coveredwith reflected briftles, of a pale buff-colour; at the bafe of thebill, from eye to eye, a ftreak of brown : the feathers on thehead, neck, back, and under parts, are whitifh, deeply marginedwith crimfon; and, as fome part of the white appears not fullycovered with the crimfon, gives the bird a mottled appearance :the rump is pale crimfon : the vent dirty white : the wingis black, marked with a bar of white from the fhoulder, paffingobliquely backwards, and a fecond bar, or rather fpot, of thefame below that, but only in the inner half: the fecond quills
. A general synopsis of birds . coveredwith reflected briftles, of a pale buff-colour; at the bafe of thebill, from eye to eye, a ftreak of brown : the feathers on thehead, neck, back, and under parts, are whitifh, deeply marginedwith crimfon; and, as fome part of the white appears not fullycovered with the crimfon, gives the bird a mottled appearance :the rump is pale crimfon : the vent dirty white : the wingis black, marked with a bar of white from the fhoulder, paffingobliquely backwards, and a fecond bar, or rather fpot, of thefame below that, but only in the inner half: the fecond quills areeach of them tipped with white : the tail black : legs have received this both from Hudforis Bay and New Tork. +- PARROT-BILLED XLII. Description. Lev. Muf. Cj I Z E of the Hedge Sparrow: length feven inches. The billfafhioned much like that of a Parrot,, the upper mandible be-ing elongated and curved at the point, the under one fhort;colour of the bill pale, with a dufky tip: the head and part of the wcuco (///-,/rrrr4. /r< GROSBEAK. the neck in the male are yellow : the reft of the plumage agreenifh olive brown, paleft beneath: the edges of the quills andtail yellowifh; the laft even at the ends: legs pale brown. The plumage in the female is not unlike that of the male, ex- Fei^le. cept the head, which is the fame as the other parts of the body,with a mixture of yellowifh grey about the fides of the head. Inhabits the Sandwich Iflands. Place. Loxia coccothrauftes, Lin. Sjji. i. p. 299. N° 2.—Faun. Suec. 222.—Scop. HAWI HAWFINCH^ ann. i. N* 201.—Kram. el. p. 364. N° I.—Brun. in app.—Mutter, N° 245.—Frifcb. t. 4. M. & F.—OIin. uccel. pi. in pi. Gros-bec, Brif. orn. iii. p. 219. N° 1.—Buf. oif. iii. p. 444. pi. 27. f. 1. —Pi. enl. 993 or Hawfinch, Rati Syn. p. 85. A. i.—Will. orn. p. 244. pi. 44. —Albin. i. pi. 56.—Edw. pi. 188.—Br. Z00L i. N° 113.—Artl. Br. Muf. Lev. Muf. rF,H
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