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h-.bits Africa, near the Senegal. It is about feven -uches 

 long ; the bill and legs are black. 



Aurea; Gold-backed grolbeak. B'ack ; hack golden ; 

 wing-coverts pale brown, fpotled with black ; legs blueilh. 

 t inhnbits Benguclo. 



RumciLLA ; Caiicafian grofboak, fo called froin the 

 Caucafian mountains which it inhabits. It is about eight 

 inches long. Scarlet, fpotted with v\hite; belly and vent 

 rofy ; greater wing-coverts brown ; tail black ; feathers of 

 the body cinereous at the bafe, giving the plumage a waved 

 appearance. 



* Pyrhuula ; Bullfinch. Le BouvrcuU, BrifTon. The 

 bill of this bird is of a dark horn colour, the upper mandible 

 hooked, and projects over the lower, which is roundifli, like 

 a parrot's ; top of the head, feathers round the eye, and a 

 fpot under the beak, of a dark blue gloffy black ; the hind 

 part of the neck and the back are grey ; the throat and 

 bread are of a beautiful flefii-coloured red ; belly and vent 

 white, as is the rump ; quill-feathers and tail black ; wing- 

 coverts blue-black, the Icfs ones tipped with white; legs 

 very fliort and black. The female is black on the head, 

 flight-featiicrs, and tail ; bread and under parts of a reddifh- 

 brown ; the rump whitilh. There are three other varieties : 

 I. Entirely black. 2. White, back with a few black 

 fpots. 3. White; head, neck, bread, and belly rofy. 



Thefe birds are very troublefome vilitors to the orchards 

 and gardens, in the fpring of the year ; feeding on the buds 

 of cherries, plums, and other fruit-trees. They retire to 

 woods and clofe cover, to build their neds in May. They 

 have no fong in the date of nature, but are readily taught 

 fme notes of mufic, and even to fpeak. Females are made 

 as perfeft as males in mufical tunes. They form a flight 

 ned of twigs laid crodways, and lay four egfgs. 



Cahdixalis ; Cardinal grolbeak ; Virginian nightingale. 

 Le gros-bec de Virginie, Bridon. Creded, red; frontlet 

 black ; bill and legs blood-red ; bill and legs pale rofy ; 

 cred, when ereft, pointed. The female differs from the 

 male, being modly of a reddifli-brown. This fpecies is met 

 with in feveral parts of North .\merica, and lias obtained 

 the name of nightingale, on account of its line fong. In 

 the fpring, and mod part of the fummer, it fits on the tops 

 of the highed trees, finging early in the morning, fo loud 

 as to pierce the ears ; frequently kept in cages, in which it 

 fings through the year : lomctimcs it is quite mute for a 

 time, and again redlefs, hopping from perch to perch, and 

 finging alternately. It inhabits North America ; feeds on 

 grain and Indian corn, which it hoards up. 



Carlfoxi. Red ; chin black ; rump, tail, wings, and 

 legs brown. Inhabits the iflands of the Indian fea ; it re- 

 fembles tRe cardinalis, but is not creded. 



BoETOKEKSis ; Indian grodieak. Creded, red ; frontlet 

 red ; bill and legs yellow ; the toes are long ; claws diarp, 

 pointed ; wing-coverts black. It inhabits India, and is 

 about eight inches long. 



Madagascariensis ; Madagafcar groftieak. Red, ocu- 

 lar band black, back fpotted witlf blackidi ; the bill alfo 

 is black; wings and tail brow.', edged with olive. It is about 

 five inches and a half long, and inhabits Madagafcar. The 

 young birds at fird are-olive, and do not arrive at the red 

 colour but by degrees. ^ 



Mexicana ; Mexican grofbeak. Red ; wings and tail 

 black. It inhabits New Spain, and is about fix inches and 

 a half long. 



Brasiliana ; Brafilian grofbeak. Brown ; beneath red- 

 dilh, with fpots annulate with black ; head and middle of th« 

 belly red j crefccnt on the nape and tip of the tail white j 



the bill is of a fledi colour ; wings and tail black ; wing- 

 coverts and lecond.iry quiU-tcathers reddilh at the tips. It 

 ij found in B.'-azil. 



DoMlNKAN.\; Le gros-lec dii Brefil, Briffun ; yfin-rican 

 lullfinch, WiUoughby. Black ; head and chin fcaikt ; bread, 

 belly, and edge of the quill-feathcrs white ; the neck is 

 blackifli above ; back, rump, and wing-coverts grey a little 

 fpotted with blai k ; vent and fides of the neck whitidi ; 

 wings and tail black ; legs cinereous. It inhabits Brazil, 

 There is a varieiv ; cinereous, beneath fnowy ; fore part 

 of the head and ihroat red ; tail-featlicrs black edged with 

 cinereous, the outmod white on the outer edge. It is 

 about the fize of a lark. 



Cuct)LLAT.\ ; Creded Dominican grofbeak. Cinereous ^ 

 creded ; head and chin fcarlet ; breail and bel'y white j tail 

 long, the lateral feathers blackifii. This, wliich by Latham 

 is reckoned a variety of the Dominicana^ and which is about 

 the fame fize, inhabits Brazil. 



SiBlRiCA ; Siberian grolbeak. Size of a linnet, but 

 fuller of feathers. Bill lomewhat longer than that of a bull- 

 finch ; round the bafe of it the featli'A'S are of a deep purple ; 

 head and back in iome birds of a deep vermilion ; in others 

 of a rofe-colour marked with blown, as in the linnet ; the 

 under parts paler, and not fpotted. The female and young 

 birds are of the colour of a linnet, with a tinge of red on 

 the belly and rump. 



This is a mod beautiful fpecies. and inhabits the bufliy 

 fhrubs about the rivers and twrrents of the foulhern moun- 

 tains of Siberia, and particularly about lake Baikal; fond 

 of the feeds of the bhieifh and other mngworls ; it is a 

 redlefs bird, and in winter unites into fmall flocks, and keeps 

 in warmer fituations among the flirubs. 



ViRGiNiCA ; Yellow-beUied grofbesk. Head, neck, 

 middle tail-feathers, and body beneath red ; belly yellow j . 

 nape, lower part of the back, wings, and lateral tail-feathers 

 olive. The bill is yellow, and the bird is fourtd in Vir- 

 ginia. 



Cristata ; Creded grodjeak. Whitilli, front is creded ; 

 the rump and legs are red ; middle tail-ftjathers very long. 

 It inhabits Ethiopia, and is one of the larged of itb tribe. 

 Cred and bread in the male red, female white. 



EuvTllROCF.i'ii.iLA ; Paradife grofbeak. Le cardinal 

 d' Angola, Brilfon ; Sparrow of Paradife, Edwards. Pale 

 afii ; head pnrplifh ; brcait fpotted with wiiite ; bill and 

 legs fiefli colour ; chin red ; body beneath ; a double ob- 

 lique band on the wings white. It inhabits Angola. . " 



Maj.\ ; White-headed gn.fbeak. Brown; head white. 

 It inhabits Malacca and China, and is about four iiiclies 

 long. The head and neck are whitifh, and fo alfo are the 

 fecond and fourth quill-feathers. 



Flavicans ; Yellow grofbeak. Back greenidi ; head 

 tawny ; the wings and tail are of a greenitb-yellow. It is 

 the fize of a canary, bird, and is an inhabitant of Afia. 



BoN'.\RlEN'.sis ; Marigold grofoeak. Head and neck 

 blue ; body abpve blackilh, beneath yellow ; belly and vent 

 fulphur ; wings and tail blackilh, edged with blue. It in- 

 habits Buenos Ayrcs, where it is rarely feen till September ; 

 it frequents cultivated places and gardens ; feen in pairs, and 

 apparently very much attached to each other ; feeds on 

 grafs and on feeds. The bill is blackifli ; the legs are red- 

 dilh ; claws fliarp, curved, grooved, the hind-one very 

 large. 



Okyzivoh.v ; Java groflieak. Le gros-lec cendre de la 

 Chine, BrifTon ; Padda, or Rice bird, Edwards. Cinereous; 

 temples white ; bill red. It inhabits China, Java, and 

 Africa, is five inches long, and very dedruiSive. to rice 

 plantations. The female has the bill and eye-lids very pale 



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