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lined with feathers, at a finall height from the ground. The eggs 

 are four in number, and white. The young are hatched the mid- 

 dle 01 June. Though this bird, when adult, is beautiful in. co- 

 tour, the young brood for foine time remain of a plain dull blue. 

 The natives of the Bay call it Wujcunithow *, 



Mr. Pennant obferves, that he has feen them m the^jwe foreft?, 

 near Ihvercauld, in the county of Aherdecn, in Scotland, in uie 

 month of Auguft ; and therefore fufpects that they breed there f. 



Cape Grofbfak, Gen. Syn. iii. p, 1 1 ?. N" r. 7- 



"R. Sparrman, in his voyage, after talking of being treated 

 with a rare and delicate difh oi broiled Sparrows (Loxia ca- 

 penfiSi Lin.;^) adds, that they do much damage to the cornfields-, 

 and that at the approach of fummer, they always change their 

 yellow for a blood-red hue. 



Goldbacked Grofbeak, Geti. Syn. iii. p. 115. N° 9. 9. 



GOLD-B.XKED- 



R. Tunftall informs me, that he has two or three times been *' 



in poffpfnon of this fpecies, and in particular had once a 

 pair of them together. The female vv^as of a dark brown. The 

 cocks changed twice in a year, and in winter were nearly of the co- 

 lour of the i>ens. One of the cocks lived nine or ten years, and 

 died not long fince. Neither of them had what could be called 

 a fong. 



* Mr. Hutchins. f Aril. Zoo/. 



X I^oy. i. p. 174. — Should not this rather be Loxia orix, Lin. which is of a- 

 ieautiful red colour in fummer, and of a plain afh-colour in the winter feafon ?' 

 2 Cardinal 



