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FEMALE. 
Place. 
87. 
4- BRASILIAN. 
F. 
DESCRIPTION». 
VARIETIES» 
By AN Ch 
The female differs: in her the bill is whitifh : head, neck, and 
upper parts, fulvous : throat purplifh chefnut: on each fide of 
the breaft a fpot of the fame colour; the reft of the under parts 
dirty yellowifh white: quills and tail fulvous: legs and claws 
grey. 
Inhabits the ifland of Cuba, where the natives give it the 
name of Maia. It is likewife found in the Zaft Indies. 
It is a gregarious bird: flies in innumerable flocks, and is 
very hurtful to the Réce-fields, which it is a very great deftroyer 
cf, and, in all probability, may be found wherever that grain Is. 
cultivated. The flefh. is accounted good and: wholefome.. 
Fringilla granatina, Liz. Syf.i. p. 319. 116 
Le Grenadin, Brif. orn. iii. p. 216. 67. pl. g. f. 3.—Buf. oi. iv. ps 1695 
pl. 7. f.1.—P/. ent. 109. f. 3. 
Red-and-blue Brafilian Finch, £dqw. pl. 191.—Bancr. Guian. p. 1816. 
Br. Muf. Lev. Muy. 
IZE of the Sifkin: length. four inches three quarters. Bill: 
like red coral: irides dark :. eyelids fcarlet: fides of. the- 
head, round the eye,, bloffom-coloured violet :_bafe of the bill: 
above, blue = throat, lower part of the belly, and thighs, black :: 
the reft of the head and body chefnut: the back and fcapulars. 
incline to brown: the rump blue: the quills are brown: tail: 
cuneiform and black: the legs. pale grey.. 
Thefe differ in colour: fome have a fpot of brown between the: 
bill and eye; and the hinder parts of the body,, both above and 
beneath, violet: others are of the fame colour on the lower belly 
and 
