BRAZILIAN FINCH. 
Fringilla Granatina. Lyn. Syst. i. p. 319 — 1 1 . 
Le Grenadin. Bris. 'ui. p. 216. 67. 
Red and Beue Brazilian Finch. Edw. iv. p. 1 9 1 . 
Brazilian Finch. Lath. Syn. ii. p. 316. No-. 87. 
The subject of this plate is of tlie size of life ; it came from Brazil, where 
it is very much valued by the Europeans, being a lively active bird, with 
an agreeable sono-. 
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The bill is of a most beautiful red, perfectly conic, slender towards the 
end, and very sharp pointed, above the base blue; the cheeks pale violet; 
irides hazel, with scarlet eyelids; the head, neck, breast, and upper belly, 
chesnut ; the throat black ; the lower belly and thighs dusky ; the rump 
and covert feathers above the tail a beautiful blue, those under the tail 
dusky; the wings are likewise of a dusky brown; the tail is black and 
cuneiform ; the legs dull flesh-colour. 
1 hese birds vary very much in colour : this subject had a dusky line 
from the bill to the eye, in others this character is wanting : in some, the 
coverts, both above and beneath the tail, are violet; others have the lower 
belly and thighs chesnut, and the tail a reddish brown. The Count de 
Buffon says tire Portuguese, most probably from a resemblance between the 
plumage of this bird and the uniform of some of their regiments, have 
named it the Oronooko Captain. 
