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nutely tipt with white; legs and feet lead colour; bill a dusky 

 bluish horn colour; eye large, full and black. 



The female is of a dark drab colour, tinged with blue, and con- 

 siderably lightest below. I suspect the males are subject to a 

 change of colour during winter. The young, as usual with many 

 other species, do not receive the blue colour until the ensuing 

 spring; and till then very much resemble the female. 



Latham makes two varieties of this species; the first wholly 

 blue, except a black spot between the bill and eye; this bird in- 

 habits Brazil, and is figured by Brisson, Orn. Ill, 321, No. 6, 

 pi. 17, fig. 2. The other is also generally of a fine deep blue, 

 except the quills, tail and legs, which are black; this is Edwards' 

 " Blue Grosbeak from Angola," pi. 125; which Dr. Latham 

 suspects to have been brought from some of the Brasilian set- 

 tlements, and considers both as mere varieties of the first. I am 

 sorry I cannot at present clear up this matter, but shall take 

 ?ome farther notice of it hereafter. 



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