BLUE GROSBEAK 



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nutely tipt with white; legs and feet lead color; bill a dusky bluish 

 horn color; eye large, full and black. 



The female is of a dark drab color, tinged with blue, and con- 

 siderably lightest below. I suspect the males are subject to a 

 change of color during winter. The young, as usual with many 

 other species, do not receive the blue color until the ensuing spring; 

 and till then very much resemble the female. 



Latham makes two varieties of this species; the first wholly 

 blue, except a black spot between the bill and eye; this bird in- 

 habits Brasil, and is figured by Brisson, Orn. Ill, 321, No. 6. pi. 

 17, fig. 2. The other is also generally of a fine deep blue, except 

 the quills, tail and legs, which are black; this is Edwards^ '^Blue 

 Grosbeak from Angola,^' pi. 125; which Dr. Latham suspects to 

 have been brought from some of the Brasilian settlements, and con- 

 siders both as mere varieties of the first. I am sorry I cannot at 

 present clear up this matter, but shall take some farther notice of 

 it hereafter. 



