BLUE GROSBEAK. 
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nutely tipt with white; legs and feet lead colour; bill a dusky 
bluish horn colour; eye large, full and black. 
The female is of a dark drab colour, tinged with blue, and con- 
siderably lightest below. I suspect the males are subject to a 
change of colour during winter. The young, as usual with many 
other species, do not receive the blue colour until the ensuing 
spring; and till then very much resemble the female. 
Latham makes two varieties of this species; the first wholly 
blue, except a black spot between the bill and eye; this bird in- 
habits Brazil, and is figured by Brisson, Orn. Ill, 321, No. 6, 
pi. 17, fig. 2. The other is also generally of a fine deep blue, 
except the quills, tail and legs, which are black; this is Edwards’ 
Blue Grosbeak from Angola,” pi. 125; which Dr. Latham 
suspects to have been brought from some of the Brasilian set- 
tlements, and considers both as mere varieties of the first. I am 
sorry I cannot at present clear up this matter, but shall take 
some farther notice of it hereafter. 
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