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PLACE. 
BAU NE GN NU G: 
a finall fpot of red on the breaft, which only lafts #or a time. 
The following moult it difappears, and, inftead of it, the whole 
under fide is whitifh ; and the male greatly refembles the 
female. 
It is perhaps this variety, or one greatly refembling it, which 
caufed Linneus to fay that the female is blue all over, except the 
belly, which is white. 
The Spaniards call thefe birds by the name of Maripofa; the 
Englifb, Nonpareil. Will frequently live eight or ten years. 
” Le quadricolor, Buf. oi/. iii. p. 467. N° 15. 
Gros-bec de Java, P/. enl. 101. f. 2. 
ATHER lefs than the laft: length five inches. Bill dufky: 
the head, and neck, blue: back, wings, and end of the tail, 
green: upper part of the tail, and its coverts, and the middle of 
the belly, red: the breaft, and lower part of the belly, pale 
brown: legs pale flefh-colour. 
Inhabits Fava. Buffon draws Albin’s Chinefe Sparrow, and the 
Gros-bec de fava of Briffon, as fynonyms to this bird; but thefe 
belong to the Malacca Grofleak. The bird here in queftion 
feems much to coincide with the Painted B*. We therefore fup- 
pofe fome miftake to have happened, in refpect to the notes of 
this author. 
* In the Planches Exluminéges the crown of the head, and back, are grey: the 
neck blue; from thence to the vent pale brown, except a broad bar of red on 
the belly juft before the thighs: the upper tail coverts, and bafe of the tail, are 
alfo red; the reft of the tail pale brown; the shape of it a little cuneiform. 
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