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fawn-coloured sides distinguish it from the females 

 of the preceding two species, with which in other 

 respects it well agrees, as they do still more with 

 each other. 



The name of Quit is applied without much dis- 

 crimination by the negroes of Jamaica, to several 

 small birds, such as the Banana Quit, which is a 

 Creeper, and the Blue Quit, and Grass Quits 

 which are finches ; it is probably an African de- 

 signation. 



COTTON-TREE SPARROW.* 



Black Bulfinch, Rob. Cojfee-hird. 



Fyrrhula violacea. 



Loccia violacea, Linn. — Edw. Birds, pi. 82. female ? 



Pyrrlmla auranticollis, Vieill. Gal. Ois. pi. 55. male. 



One of those gigantic and hoary cotton trees 

 which are the pride of a Jamaican forest, or some 

 other tree equally tall, is usually selected by this 

 Bulfinch, for its abode. At the extremity of an 

 immense horizontal limb, it builds a nest of rude 

 materials, as large as a half-bushel measure, the 



* Length 7f inches, expanse 10^, flexure 3 ■^, tail 3, rictus -5^, tarsus 

 YqI middle toe •^. Irides dark hazel : beak and feet black. Male. Plu- 

 mage black ; an arched stripe over the eye, the chin, throat, and under tail- 

 coverts rust-red : under wing-coverts yellowish white. Female. Dull 

 mouse-brown ; paler beneath. The red paler and less in extent. 



