GROSBEAK. 



B. — Rouge noir, Buf. iii. 461. 



Grosbec de Cayenne, PI. enl. 309. 2. Gen. Syn. iii. 121. 



225 



This is the same in size and plumage; tail, and wings, both 

 brown. — It is said to come from Cayenne, and inserted solely on the 

 authority of M. Buffon ; but it has not been our chance to meet with 

 one brought from that part of the world. 



18.— PARADISE GROSBEAK. 



Loxia erythrocephala, Ind. Orn. i. 377. Lin. i. 301. Gm. Lin.'u 849. Spalowsk.u 



t.28. Daud.u. 390. Shaw's ■ Zool. ix. 262. 

 Cardinalis Angolensis, Bris. App. 78. Id. Svo. i. 368. Gerin.iu. t. 234. 1. 

 Sparrow of Paradise, Edw. pi. 180, 

 Paradise Grosbeak, Gen. St/n. iii. 122. Id. Sup. 150. 



LENGTH about six inches. Bill and legs flesh-colour ; head 

 and chin red ; neck behind, back, rump, and wing coverts bluish 

 ash-colour ; upper tail coverts margined with grey ; the under parts 

 white, marked with curved spots of black on the sides : wing coverts 

 tipped with white, forming two bars on the wing ; quills and tail 

 deep bluish ash, tipped with grey. 



Inhabits Angola, in Africa, from whence it is not unfrequently 

 brought in a cage. The late Mr. Tunstall had a pair of these, and 

 was twice successful in hatching young in his aviary, each time 

 bringing one bird to perfection ; one of them lived a week, the other a 

 fortnight, but was forsaken at last by the mother, probably from being 

 too much disturbed ; while the hen was sitting, if any one looked at 

 her, she was in strange agitation, writhing herself into a form almost 

 horrid, as if falling into convulsions : the cock frequently sang, and 

 would do it almost at command, but in so low a note as scarcely to 

 be heard, except quite close to the cage. 



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