grosbeaks's Usage Examples:

The birds of this genus - the crossbills - when their other characters are taken into account, prove to be intimately allied on the one hand to the grosbeaks (Pinicola) and on the other through the redpolls (Aegiothus) to the linnets (Linota) - if indeed these two can be properly separated.

Just 50m before the restaurant we had fine views on a couple of beautiful red-and-black grosbeaks.

Of course, I was looking forward to the Spot-winged grosbeaks that are regularly found here.

Bonaparte and Professor Schlegel (1850), though it excludes many birds which an English writer would call "grosbeaks.

The species of the Of d World which, though commonly called "grosbeaks," certainly belong to the family Ploceidae, are treated under WEAVER-BIRD.

Amongst the Passeres, such forms as the larks, stone-chats, finches, linnets and grosbeaks are well developed, and exhibit many species.

The mountain-finches may be regarded as pointing first to the rock-sparrows (Petronia) and then to the true sparrows (Passer); while the grosbeaks pass into many varied forms and throw out a very well marked form - the bullfinches (Pyrrhula).