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Jacarini Finch (Volatinia Jacarini). 



The female is altogether browner than the male, the wings and 

 tail darker with pale edges to the feathers, lores and feathers round 

 eye whitish ; cheeks pale brown ; throat and abdomen whitish, the 

 former with dusky mottling ; throat, breast, and sides of body pale 

 yellowish-brown streaked with dark brown ; thighs and under tail- 

 coverts similar ; beak brownish horn colour. 



Rose-breasted Grosbeak (Hedymeles ludovicianus). 



The female of this handsome bird is very different from the male, 

 being olivaceous or ochreous brown above streaked with blackish 

 instead of the black and white of its mate ; through the centre of 

 the crown, however, it has a white streak, an eyebrow stripe and 

 the lores are white, and the cheeks huffish- white ; the wings and 

 tail are blackish brown, the former showing two white bands as in 

 the male. The under parts are white, with the breast and centre of 

 abdomen buffish (instead of the beautiful rose-red patch on the fore- 

 neck and breast of the cock bird) ; the breast flanks and centre of 

 the abdomen are streaked with brown, and the under wing-coverts 

 and axillaries are orange instead of rose-red ; the beak also is brown 

 instead of white. 



Virginian Cardinal (Cardinalis cardinalis). 



Instead of the bright brick red or scarlet of the cock bird, the hen 

 is pale olive-brown, with the webs of the principal wing-feathers 

 and the tail-feathers suffused with red, the under parts are pale 

 buff, shading into white towards the tail ; the thighs and under 

 surface of the wings brighter red than the upper surface tints ; 

 beak similar to that of male. 



In America no less than a dozen races of this bird are recognised 

 under distinctive names, but the differences are too slight to com- 

 mend themselves to the consideration of the cage-bird lover. 



Dr Sharpe thought it possible that Cardinalis might prove to be a 

 Bunting ; but although it shows certain characteristics which seem 

 to bring it near to Paroaria, I think the heavy, powerful beak of 

 Cardinalis is far more suggestive of Coccothraustes, Hedymeles, and 

 other genera of the larger Grosbeaks. 



