36« PAINTED BUNTING. 



immenfe fource of wealth to the fouthern provinces of America; 

 and to Europe relief from want in times of dearth. Within little 

 more than half a century, a hundred and twenty thoufand barrels of 

 Rice have been in one year exported from South Carolina; and 

 eighteen thoufand * from Georgia : and all from the remnant of a 

 fea ftore, left in the bottom of a fack 1— Ought I not to retradt the 

 word chance, and afcribe to Providence fo mighty an event from fo 

 fmall a caufe ? 



%2&. Painted. Painted Finch, Catejby, i. i^\.—Laiufon, 144. 



Emberiza ciris, Lin. Syjl. 313. — Edio. 130, 173. 



Le Verdier de la Louifiane, dit vulgairement le Pape, Brijfon, lii. too. App. 74. 

 — PI. Enl. 159. — De Buffon, iv. x-jd,— ^Latham y ii. 206. — Lev. Mus. — 

 El. Mus. 



With the head, and hind part of the head, of an exquifite 

 deep blue : orbits fcarlet : back, greater coverts, and fecon- 

 daries, green : primaries dufky : the upper orders of leffer coverts of 

 a fine blue ; the lower, orange : rump, and whole under fide of the 

 body, of a rich fcarlet; the fides declining into yellow : tail dufky, 

 edged with green. 



This beautiful fpecies is fome years in arriving at the height of 

 its colors. At firft is of a plain brown, like a hen Sparrow j in 

 the next ftage, becomes blue ; in the thirdj attains the perfection of 

 its gay teints. 



The pEMAiE is brown, and has over its plumage a tinge of greeiiv ' 



• Amtrican Traveller, 95, loi. In a news-paper of laft year, I met with the fol- 

 lowing article : — A Gentleman died lately in Carolina, without any nearer relation than- 

 a third coufin. He determined to leave his eftate, confifting of three fine plantations, 

 to fome perfon whofe public deferts would juftify fuch a ftep. The Gentleman, oa 

 confideration, determined" in favoirr of Mr. JJhby, a gentleman in the province, whofe 

 ancelior had introduced the culture of rice, by which Carolina had increafed fo amaz- 

 ingly in wealth, declaring at the fame time in his will, that if there had been any 

 living perfon to whom his country was equally obliged, in the fame line of peace, he 

 would have preferred him. Mr. /^jhhy, on his death, which happened lately, took 

 pofleffion of the Gentleman's eftate, in confequence of this will. — How much more- 

 rational is fuch a condufl, than endowing colleges or hofpitals ! 



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