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iulvous, or rather a vivid scarlet ; the back green, below which is a 

 space of yellow, and the rump scarlet, like the abdomen. The wings 

 are greenish, being shaded with brown, and having the edges of the 

 feathers of a dehcate green : the greater wing coverts in our specimen 

 are of a pale rose colour, and which in the general conformation of 

 the plumage constitutes a roseate band across the wings. The tail, 

 like the wings, are brownish, having the edges of each feather green ; 

 the bill and legs dark. 



In some of the varieties of this bird, occasioned as before ob- 

 served, through the moulting of the feathers, the blue purple of 

 the head and neck is more generally extended along the back, and 

 sometimes appears in patches upon other parts of the plumage. 

 Sometimes, also, the dark spots that appear upon the scarlet space of 

 the chin, throat, breast, and abdomen, are more diffused, and in 

 other states of moulting the abdomen becomes yellow or yellowish. 

 The abdomen has also, in some instances, been known to change 

 white, leaving only a rounded spot of red upon the breast. 



Catesby describes this species as a native of Carolina. It is an 

 inhabitant of all the warmer parts of America, extending from Mexico 

 and Peru, as far as Canada, in the milder seasons of the year. It 

 is rather a hardy bird, insomuch, that some attempts have been made 

 by the Dutch to naturahze the species in Europe, like the Canary ; 

 but not, however, with the same success, although they may be kept 

 alive for some time after being brought into the less genial climates 

 of the Continent of Europe. 



The celebrated Marmaduke Tunstall, Esq. a most indefatigable 

 Naturalist, who hvcd towards ttic latter part of the preceding 



