BIRDS. PASSERES. So. Loxia. 
5 *-'; 
black. 
White ; back with a few black fpots, 
; head, neck, bread and belly rofy. 
Inhabits Euroic : hardly 6 inches long ; frequents gardens v.i 
the fprino and is very deftruftive to fruit trees by eating the 
young buds ; when tamed is eafily taught to whillle any 
tune, and even to I'pcak. , • . 
Crouiti black ;• breajt cinereous ; bellj/ in the male red, in the 
female chefnut. 
Crefted, red ; frontlet black ; bill and legs blood-red. 
Cardinal 6. 
Inliabits North America : nearly 8 inches long ; fings very 
finely in fpring and fummer \ feeds on gram and Indian corn, 
which it hoards up. . 
Bill and kgs pale rofy ; crefi, when ereft, pointed. 
; chin black ; rump, tail, wings and legs brown. 
Inliabits iflaiids of the Indian Ocean : refembles the laic, but 
is not creded. 
Creded, red; frontlet red; bill and legs yellow. 
Indian Cr. 
Inhabits India ; 8 inches long. 
Toes long ; daws Iharp, pointed ; wing-coverts dark. 
^ed ; ocular band black ; back fpotted with blackifh. 
Mttdagajcar tr. 
Inhabits Jlfai^aga/car ; 5 1 inches long. . , , 
Bik black ; wings and taxi brown edged with oUve, the young 
bird at £rd olive and gradually growing red. 
'ki:,- 
Red ; wings and tail black. 
Inhabits New Spain i 6^ inches long. 
Mexican G. 
Brown, beneath reddifti with fpots annulate with black ; 
head and middle of the belly red ; crefeent on the nape 
' and tip of the tail white. Brajilian Or. 
Inhabits Brafil : ni inches long. 
Bill flefli-colour ; wingt and tail black ; wing-coverts and le- 
coniary quill-feathers reddilh at the tips. 
Domini- 
