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The Blue Gros-Beak from Angola. 
T HIS Bird is here figured of its natural Bignefs, which agrees with the Size 
of the common Gros-beak or Hawfinch, \Coccothraufies vulgaris} of which Ge¬ 
nus it is a diftindt Species. 
The Bill is very ftrong, thick at its Bafe, and fharp-pointed, tho’ ending in an 
Angle not very acute; of a Lead-Colour, with the lower Mandible lighter than the 
Upper. The Eyes are of a dark Hafel-Colour, the Pupil Black. The Bill is encom- 
pafled above and beneath with black Feathers; narrow on the Forehead, on the Sides 
reaching back to the Eyes, and beneath the Bill reaching about an Inch down the 
Throat. The Head, Neck, Back, Rump, lefler Covert-Feathers of the Wings, and all 
the under Side of the Bird are of a very fine deep blue Colour. On the Top of the 
Head the Feathers are longer than ordinary, and form a little Creft on the Hinder- 
part of the Head. The greater Feathers, or Quills in the Wings, and the Row of 
Covert-Feathers next above them are Black; yet thofe Quills that fall next the Back 
of the Bird, and the firft Row of Coverts above them have blue Edges. The Tail 
is wholly Black on the upper Side, and of a fainter or dufky Black beneath, as are 
the greater Feathers of the Wings. Its Legs and Feet are rather little and weak than 
ftrong in Proportion to the Bignefs of the Bird. The Legs, Feet and Claws are all 
of a Black, or dark Lead-Colour. 
This Bird was brought with feveral others alive from Lijbon , by Mr. Paul Mar- 
tyn , a Gentleman who had been in the Portuguefe Settlements abroad. While he 
was in London , he lodged at the Houfe of Mr. Goodchild , a Dealer in Hard-Wares, 
in Cannon-Street , where he obliged me with the Sight of all his curious Birds, from 
which I made Daughts : And he was fo good as to write Notes under each of 
them for my better Information of their Natures. Under the above he wrote as fol¬ 
lows. “ The Portuguefe call it Azulatn-, this Bird is only to be got on the Coaft 
“ of Angola , in Africa , x Settlement belonging to the Portuguefe ; it is chiefly 
“ efteemed for its Docility and Colour”. I believe, I may venture to pronounce this 
Bird a Non-delcript, as I have been at fome Pains to examine our Natural Hiftorians, 
andean find nothing like it. I have placed it on a Branch of a Cherry-Tree (which I 
copied from Nature) by the Way of contrafting the Colours. 
The Butterfly in this Plate is Englijh , and of the natural Size. Its Body is brown j 
the lower Wings are of a yellowilh White, dotted with Black round their Borders; the 
upper Wings are half White next the Body, the other Half is of an Orange-Colour, 
and bordered with Black at the End. There is alfo a fmall Spot of Black in the 
Orange-colour’d Part of each Wing.^ 
The 
