DOMINICAN CARDINAL. 
little red points or vSpots , instead of that part, 
being all red, as in the male. ' . ' 
It is singular that Brisson,^who calls thi$ 
bird the Dominican Cardinal — Le Cardi- 
Bai Dominiqaain" — as well as Edwards ; in- 
stead of Marcgrave's name Guiratirica, as 
quoted by Edwards from Willughby^ gives us^ j 
for the Brasilian name, adopted by Marcgrave, 
Ray, Wiliughby, and Johnston, that of Ti]e 
Guacu Paroara : from whence BufFon ha 
taken, simply, the term Paroare ; under which 
he describes our Dominican Cardinal, as a 
South American bird related to the Ring 
Sparrow. 
The length of this bird, according to Bris- 
son, from the tip of the bill to the tip of the 
tail, is six inches nine lines. Wiliughby de- 
scribes it as the bignes-s of a Lark ; and says, 
the eyes are blue, and the ear-holes jarge. The 
lower mandible of the bilh he also notices, is- 
not only white, but a little incarnate ; which 
corresponds wdth the colouring of Edwards's 
figure, though not remarkable, in his descrip- 
tion. 
