I. 
f= RED- 
BREASTED T. 
Description. 
FEMALE. 
PLACE AND 
MANNERS. 
Tia Ne VAG Gs ETO: 
N° 40. Military T. N° 43. Amboina T. 
41. White-headed T. 44. Cerulean T, 
42. Yellow T. 
ILL conoid, a little inclining towards the point: upper 
B mandible flightly ridged, and notched near the end *. 
Tanagra jacapa, Lin. Sy/. i. p. 313. 1- 
Le Cardinal pourpré, Brif. orn. iii. p. 49. 29. pl. 3. f.2. 3.8 — Phe enl. 128, 
feuNen2e 
Le Bec d’argent, Buf. oif. iv. p. 259. 
Red-breafted Blackbird, Edw. pl. 267. 
Br. Muf. Lev. Mu/. 
I ZE of a Sparrow: length fix inches and a half. Bill ftout 
and black, except the bafe of the lower mandible, which is 
fingularly rounded at the back part, and broad, and of a fine 
white filver polifh: irides brown: the plumage in general is 
black, with a purplifh glofs, except the chin, throat, and breaft, 
which are of a deep crimfon: the fore part of the head is alfo 
crimfon in fome fpecimens, in others not. 
The female has not this confpicuous character of the under 
mandible marked fo ftrongly as in the male; and the colour of 
the plumage is dull purplifh brown ; beneath, reddifh: wings, 
and tail, brown: legs in both brown. 
This fpecies is common in Cayenne, Guiana, Mexico, and other 
parts of America, where it lives on various kinds of fruits only, 
and comes frequently near habitations, and into the gardens; and 
in general feen in pairs. 
* Genera of Birds. 
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