118 
FEmALe. 
PEACE: 
1166 
+ CARDINAL 
GR. 
DESCRIPTION, 
FEMALE. 
GakwOe si bik Vai Kk 
The female is brown where the male is black, and the red not 
fo bright. 
Inhabits the Bahama [lands, Famaica, and the warmer parts of 
America. 
Loxia cardinalis, Lin. Sf. i. p. 300, N° 5.—Ama@n. Acad. iv. p. 242.— 
Scop. ann. i. N° 203.—Frifch. t. 4, 
Le Gros-bec de Virginie, Bri/. orz. ill. p. 253. N° 17.—Buf. of. iii. p. 458s 
pl. 28.—P/. enl. 37. 
Virginian Nightingale, Raii Syn. p. 85. A. 3.—Wéall. orn. p. 245. ple 44. 
Red Grofbeak, d/bin. i. pl. 57. (the male.) iii. pl. 61. (the female). 
Red Bird, Kalw. trav. li, p. 72. 
Cardinal, Brown’s Fam. p. 647.—Hif. Louif. ii..p. 139.—Ar&. Zool. 
Br. Muf. Eev. Muf. 
HIS is near eight inches in length. The bill is ftout, and 
of a pale red-colour: irides hazel: the head is greatly 
crefted, the feathers rifing up to a point when erect: round 
the bill, and on the throat, black; the reft of the bird of 
a fine red: the quills and tail are duller than the reft, and 
brewnifh within: the legs are the colour of the bill. 
The female differs from-the male, being moftly of a reddifh 
brown. This fpecies is met with in feveral parts of North dme- 
vica, and has attained the name of Nightingale defervedly, being 
of a remarkable fine fong, the note much like that after which 
itis named. In fpring, and moft part of the fummer, fits on 
the tops of the higheft trees, finging early in the morning, fo 
loud as almoft to pierce the ears: frequently kept in cages, in 
which it fings throughout the year; fometimes quite mute for a 
time, and-again reftlefs, hopping from perch to perch, and fing- 
ing alternately. It is fond of maize and dbuck-wheat, and will get 
6 ie.  topether , 
