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The D OM I N I C A N“C AR'DINA L. 
T HIS Figure is of the natural Bignefs of the Bird. It hath 
Legs and Feet rather drong than weak in 'Proportion to its 
Size. 
The Bill is of a moderate Size, the upper Mandible dusky or Horn- 
Colour, the Lower whitilh. The Eyes are Black with dark Hafel-co- 
lour’d Irides. The whole Head is of a very beautiful Red, or Scarlet- 
Colour, which Colour reaches down the Fore-part of the Neck or 
Throat, as far as the Bread:, and ends in a Point. The upper Side of 
the Neck, the Back, Wings and Tail are all of a black Colour. The 
Quills that fall next to the Back are border’d round with White, as 
are the Covert-Feathers next above them ; the leffer Covert-Feathers 
of the Wings and the Back have a fmall Mixture of Grey, the Feathers 
being as it were finely fringed with Grey. The Tail-Feathers are edged 
with White. The Sides of the Neck, Bread:, and whole under Side 
as far as the Tail are purely White. It hath four Tees, three Handing 
forward and one backward, after the ufual Manner, all of a brown 
Colour. In brief it may be deferib’d thus, the Head is Red, the up¬ 
per Side Black, and the Nether White. 
This Bird was brought alive from Lisbon by Mr. Paul Martyn, 
who put the following Note under my Drawing. “ Called the Do¬ 
minican Cardinal. This Bird is found only in the Brafils , at a great 
Didance from any Habitation”. I believe this Bird hath never been yet 
figur'd, tho’ I find a Defcription of a Bird in Marcgrave s Hidory cf 
Brafil\ under the Name of Guiratirica , P. 211, that can be no 
other than the above deferibed, and any one that will compare his 
Defcription with mine, will, I dare fay, be of my Opinion. Our 
Countryman Mr. Willughby has tranflated Marcgrave s Defcription of 
this Bird, which he calls the American Bullfinch : See his Defcription 
in his Ornithology, P. 147. §. ix. As I had an Opportunity to draw 
this Figure from the living Bird, and the fore-mention’d Authors not 
having given us any Draught of it, I thought it worthy of Publica¬ 
tion, and trud that the Publick will be of my Opinion. I have heard 
of feveral of them being brought to Lo?idon fince I finifhed my 
Draught. "The 
