IliD-BREAsTED BLACKBIRD^ 
joining to the feathers of the forehead. The 
whole bird is covered with dasky black feathers, 
without any gloss : except on the fore-part of 
the head, the throat, and the beginning of the 
breast ; where the feathers are fringed with a 
fine red-wine or crimson colour, whicli out- 
wardly appears wholly red, but diminishes gra- 
dually on the sides of the breast, and on the 
belly, till it is lost in the black. The insides 
of the wings are also black. The tail is of a 
middling length ; and is composed of twelve 
feathers, the middlemost a little longer than the 
outer ones on each side. The legs and feet are 
of the common structure, and of a blackish 
colour. I am at a loss to class "this bird, not 
knowing any genus of birds agreeing with it in 
the shape of it's beak. I believe, it has not 
before been figured or described ; but there is 
something like it described in Marcgrave's His- 
tory of Brasil. See the Jacapu. He gives it 
the bigness of a Lark : and says, it is all over 
of a shining black ; yet, under the throat, some 
spots of a vermilion colour are mingled with 
the black ; the bill, which is black and a little 
crooked, is half an inch long. Willughby has 
C(^.lle£led it ii\to h.is Ornithology." 
