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« GRENADIER 
GR, 
Description. 
PLACE, 
mG Ry Ov Si BYE), At KK 
lour of the plumage red, but the middle of each on the back is 
black: quills and tail brown, margined with olive green: legs 
grey brown. . 
The young birds at firft are olive, and do not arrive at the red 
colour but by degrees. 
It is called at Madagafcar, Foudi lahé mene. 
Loxia orix, Lin. Mant. 1771. p. 527. — Emberiza orix, Liz. Sy/t. i. p. 309. 
N° 7. 
Le Cardinal du Cap de Bonne Efperance, Bri/. ora. iii. p. 114. N° 21. pl. 6. 
f. 3.—Buf. oif. iii. p. 496.—PI. enl. vi. f. 2. (the male?) 134. f. re 
(the female ?) 
Grenadier, Edw, pl. 178. — Phil. tranf. vol. lxvi. p. 278. — Miller’s Plates, 
N° 1. 
Bre Muf. Lew. My. 
IZE of the laft. The forehead, fides of the head, and china, 
are black: the breaft and belly the fame: the wings brown, 
with pale edges ; and the reft of the body of a beautiful red co- 
jour : round the knee pale brown: legs pale. 
Some of thefe birds want the black on the chin, and may not 
unaptly be taken for females. 
Thefe are inhabitants of Saint Helena, and are alfo in plenty 
at the Cape of Good Hope, where they frequent watery places 
where reeds grow, among which they are fuppofed to make the 
neft*, After defcribing thefe birds, Mr. Ma/fon obferves that 
the 
* Tf this be the fame with Kolben’s Finch, he fays that it is of a peculiar con- 
trivance, made with fmall twigs, interwoven very clofely and tightly with 
cotton, and divided into two apartments and but one entrance (the upper for 
the male, the lower for the female) and is fo tight as not to be penetrated by 
any 
