18. 
BRASILIAN 
DeEscriPpTion. 
GR, O S. B. E. AK. 
Le Grivelin, Buf. off. iii. p. 461. pl. 30. 
Gros-bec du Brefil, P/. enl. 309. fo V6 
Lev. Muf. 
EN GTH five inches and three quarters, Bill fhort, 
thick, and of a flefh-colour: the whole head and chin are 
red: beneath this a ring of white, not quite meeting on the 
fore part: back and wing coverts brown: quills and tail black ; 
the coverts and fecondaries have pale reddifh tips; end of the 
tail white: the breaft, belly, and fides, reddifh white, marked 
with round fpots of white, more or lefs encircled with black : 
_ middle of the belly red: rump dufky. 
PLACE. 
1Q- 
PARADISE GR, 
DESCRIPTION. 
PLACE. 
inhabits Bra/f/, and is a moft beautiful fpecies. 
Loxia Erythrocephala, Liz. Syf. i. p. 391. N° 10. 
Le Cardinal d’Angola, Bri/. orn, Supp. p. 78. N° 69. 
Sparrow of Paradife, Edav. pl. 180. 
Lev. Mu. 
ENGTH almoft fix inches. Bill flefh-colour: head and 
chin red: hind part of the neck, the back, rump, and wing 
coverts, blueifh afh-colour: upper tail coverts margined with 
erey : the under parts white, marked with curved {pots of black 
on the fides: the wing coverts tipped with white, forming two 
bars of the fame on the wing: quills and tail deep blue afh, 
tipped with grey: the legs flefh-colour.. 
This fpecies inhabits Angola. 
Loxia 
