Plate CXXVII. Male, Female, and Young.
Male with the head, neck, fore part of back, wings, and tail, black;
lower part of the fore neck, a portion of the breast, axillars, and
lower wing-coverts, rich carmine; hind part of the back, two bands on
the wings, bases of primary quills, tips of secondaries, and terminal
half of inner webs of outer three tail-feathers, white. Female with
the upper parts light yellowish-brown, streaked with darker, the lower
yellowish-white, the sides of the neck, fore part of breast, and sides
streaked with yellowish-brown; three white bands on the head; white
wing-bands narrower than in the male; axillars and lower wing-coverts
light buff. Young like the female.
_Male_, 7-3/4, 13.
Passes from Texas northward and eastward in great numbers. Breeds on
the Missouri, in the Middle States, Newfoundland, and Labrador. Rather
common. Migratory.
Rose-breasted Grosbeak, Loxia rosea, Wils. Amer. Orn. v. ii.
p. 135.
Fringilla ludoviciana, Bonap. Syn. p. 113.
Coccothraustes ludoviciana, Rose-breasted Grosbeak, F. Bor.
Amer. v. i. p. 271.
Rose-breasted Grosbeak, Fringilla ludoviciana, Nutt. Man. v.
i. p. 527.
Rose-breasted Grosbeak, Fringilla ludoviciana, Aud. Orn. Biog.
v. ii. p. 166; v. ii. p. 513.