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ehin and throat, is a large patch of white: the legs of a dufky 
blueifh colour. 
The female has lefs of the white on the chin, and this is not 
furrounded with black, asin the male. The bills in both have 
a procefs on each fide of the upper mandible, about the middle 
of the edges; which circumftance is not noticed in Buffon, and 
is more confiderable than in that figured by Briffon. 
The above fpecimens are in the Briti/h Mufeum, and are faid 
to have come from Surinam; they are named Corn-bitters. Brif- 
fon’s bird is merely faid to inhabit America, but what part is not 
mentioned. 
Loxia cerulea, Lin. Syf. i. p. 306. N° 41. 
Le Bouvreuil bleu de le Caroline, Brif. orn. ili. p. 323. N° 7. 
Le Bec-rond ou Bouvreuil bleu d’Amerique, Buf, oi/, iv. 392- 
Blue Finch of Guiana, Bancr. Guian. p. 179? 
Blue Grofbeak, Cate/o. Car.i. pl. 39.—<Ara. Zool. 
IZE of the Bullfinch: length fix inches. Bill half an inch, 
ftout, brown ; the bafe of it furrounded with black feathers, 
which reach on each fide as far as the eye: the whole plumage 
befides is of a deep blue, except the quills and tail,. which are 
brown, with a mixture of green, and acrofs the wing coverts a 
band of red: the legs are.dufky. 
The female is brown, with avery little mixture of blue. 
I fufpe& this to be Bancroft’s bird, which he fays is fky-blue,. 
with the outer edges of the quills and tail crimfon; and the more 
fo, as I have Jately met with one from Cayenne which had the 
chin, as. well as round the bill, black, and both the fhoulders, 
fome of the wing coverts, and edges of the fecondaries, marked 
with. reddifh, 
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