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There is alfo a variety of this, which wants the red fpot on the 

 head, but inftead of it has a circle of yellow encompafilng the 

 head; 

 TiMAtE. The female has neither red nor yellow on any part of the 



head. 



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 •{-"Var.B. 



DsscKirnoif. I" ENGTH eight inches and a half. Bill dufky, pale at the 



bafe : general colour of the plumage black : on the middle 



of the crown is a red fpot: on the fide of the head a bed of 



white, in which the eye is placed} this extends to the hind head, 



which is of a golden yellow : from the breaft down the middle 



and the fides deep crimibn : vent barred black and white : lower 



.part of the back and rump white: v/ings and tail black : fome of 



the Secondaries tipped with white at the very tip. 



Female. The female, or what I fuppofe to be fuch, anfwers in every re- 



fpec"l to the foregoing defcription, except in the head, which is 



wholly black, having only a line of white over each eye. 



Place. The former of thefe is in the collection of Capt. Davies, the lafl 



in my poffeffion ; both of them from Cayenne. 



Buffon does not tell us on what part of the head the red fpot is 



in his bird ; nor does he mention the lower part of the back and 



rump being white ; but in the Planches enluminecs it feems to be 



on the crown : and the lower part of the back and rump are there 



white, though omitted in the defcription : I will therefore fuppofe 



them trifling varieties. 



Picas 



