DOMINICAN GROSBEAK. 
Loxia Dominicana. 
Le Gkos-bec du Brasil. 
Dominican Cardinal. 
Dominican Grosbeak. 
Lyn. Syst. i. y?. 3 01. No. s. 
Bris. Orn. iii. p. 216. No, 15. 
Eclw. pi. 127. 
Lath. Gen. Syn, ii . p. i — 23. 
This beautiful bird is a native of South America ; the Count du Buffon 
describes it from Margrave, under the Brazilian name Paroare. Edwards 
as the Dominican Cardinal, from the circumstance of its head being red, 
and its body black and white. 
Its length is seven inches ; the head, throat, and fore part of the neck, is 
of a full rich red ; the hind part of the neck of a deep ash-colour, inter- 
mixed with white; the coverts of the wings, the back, the rump, and co- 
verts of the tail and scapulars, are gray, mixed with a few black spots; the 
sides of the neck, the breast, belly, thighs, and vent, are white; the quills 
are dusky, edged with white ; the tail is black, and is near three inches 
long; the bill is strong, the upper mandible brown, the under of a pale 
flesh-colour; the irides blue; the legs cinereous. 
Several of these birds have been in this Collection; and as there was not 
the least variation in their plumage, it was impossible to distinguish the 
difference of sex ; though the Count du Buffon describes the female as hav- 
ing the head of a yellow orange, sprinkled with reddish points. 
They had no song, nor ever made any attempt at one. 
