SUMMER RED-BIRD. 
Edwards's account of the Summer Red- Bird, 
more than would have happened, if both were 
speaking of the same obje£l. 
To the general excellence of Mr. Smellie\ 
translation, arid his judicious additions, we bear 
a willing testimony: we may, however, be 
permitted to remark, that " a light flame- 
colour," does not convey the idea of red. We 
use, in familiar language, the phrase, " as red 
as tire ;" but flame, generally, and particu= 
larly a Jight flame, seems to us a pale yellow. 
To say, also, as is done in the same paragraph, 
that " the lower m.andible of t4ie bill is bellied 
transversely," sounds oddly to an English eai-. 
In the original, the plumage is. described to be 
d'un rouge de feu-claire ;" which is, lite- 
rally, *' of a red flame-colour." With respedl 
to the bills of these birds, Mr. Smeiiie has so 
mistaken, and confused, the two accounts, as 
to render both egregiously erroneous. To the 
curious, we may recommend a comparison 
with the original, which will be found to have 
been mutilated, as well as mistaken ; though, 
we conceive, it has little to do with our Sum- 
mer Red-Bird, vvhich Edwards has, as usual, 
most faithfuiiy described. 
