LONG-TAILED SPARROW. 
was brought from Lisbon, and supposed to be 
a native of either Angola or Brasil ; the ship, by 
which it was carried to Lisbon, in the course 
of it's voyages, trading to both those places* 
Petiver, Willughby, and other writers of na- 
tural history, Edwards adds, have given figures 
much like this long- tailed bird; but their de- 
scriptions are so wide, that he believes it to be 
sa bird not before described. He supposes, by 
the form of the bill, that the bird is one of 
those which are called hard-billed birds, being 
thus enabled to crack many sorts of seeds and 
grain. 
The name given to this bird, by Brisson, 
■should seem to ascertain it's being a native of 
Angola. Of this Edwards was uncertain ; 
and BufTon gives us no information as to the 
place where it is found-. His account, indeed, 
•seems chiefly oomipikd from that of Edwards: 
refering the bird, however, to what he deno- 
minates the Widows; in which he also places 
the Long-Tailed Finch of Edwards, though 
he acknowledges that they differ with regard 
to the growth of the tail, as stated by the 
latter, 
We 
