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to liberty and to bis parent, who, with notes of 
^eat exultation, accompanied his flig:ht to the woods. 
^*>e happiness of my g-ood friend was scarcely less 
'^niplete, and shewed itself in his benevolent coun- 
Wance and I could not refrain saying to myself,-— 
such sweet sensations cau he derived from a simple 
"^'tcumstance of this kind, how exquisite, how unspeak- 
r.aptiirous, must the delight of those individuals 
**«'Ve been, who have rescued their fellow beings from 
^'ath chains and imprisonment, and restored them 
the arms of their friends and relations ! Surely, in 
*ttch o-odlike actions, virtue is its own most abundant 
^«B'ard. 
*56. TJXAaitA AisTirA, gm. and wins — summer red-bird. 
miSON, PLATE VI. PIG. III. MALE.-FIG. IV. FEMALE. 
, The change of colour which this bird is subject to 
•^ttrino- the first year, and the imperfect hgiire first 
Siven^of it by Catesby, have deceived the European 
J=>turalists so ranch, that four different species have 
‘'®eii formed out of this one. 
The male of the summer red-bird is wholly of a rich 
'^®i’miliou colour, most brilliant on the lower parts, 
**cept the inner vanes and t ips of the wings, which are 
a dusky brown ; the bill is di.sproportioiiably large, 
’•*flated the upper maiidilile furnished with a process, 
^■id the’ whole bill of a yellowish horn colour; the legs 
t^d feet are light blue, inclining to purple ; the eye, 
’^'■ge, the iris of a light hazel colour ; the length of the 
"hol’e bird, seven inches and a quarter ; and between 
tips of’ the expanded wings, twelve indies. The 
‘^“'hale differs little in size from the male; but is, above, 
a brownish yellow olive, lightest over the eye ; throat, 
■"■east, and whole lower part of the body, of a null 
Grange yellow ; tips and interior vanes of the wings, 
Swn ; 'bill, legs, and eye, as in the male. The nest is 
.'"‘i't in the woods, on the horizontal branch of a half- 
Ktown tree, often an evergreen, at the height ot ten or 
t'velve feet from the ground; composed, outwardly, 
