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The female is brown where the male is black, and the red not
fo bright. *
Inhabits the Bahama IJlands, Jamaica, and the warmer parts of
America.
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Description.
Scop. atm. i. N° 203.— Frifch. t. 4.
Loxia cardinalis,Lin. Syji. i. p. 300, N° 5.— Amesn. Acad. iv. p. 242.-—
Le Gros-bec de Virginie, Brif. or«, iii. p. 253. N° 1 j .— Buf. oif iii. p. 458.
pi. 28.-— Pi. enl. 37.
Virginian Nightingale, Raii Syn. p. 85. A. 3.’r—JKiW. orn. p. 245. pi. 44.
Red Grofbeak, Albin. i. pi. 57. (the male.) iii. pi. 61. (the female).
Red Bird, Kahn- trav. ii. p. 72.
Cardinal, Brown’s Jam. p. 647.—Hifi. Louif. ii. p. 139.—Ar£l. Zool.
Br. Muf. Lev. Muf.
T H IS is near eight inches in length. The bill is ftout, and
of a pale red-colour: irides hazel : the head is greatly
crefted, the feathers riling up to a point when ereft: round
the bill, and on the throat, black ; the reft of the bird of
a fine red: the quills and tail are duller than the reft, and
brownilh within : the legs are the colour of the bill.
The female differs from the male, being moftly of a reddifh
brown. This fpecies is met with in feveral parts,of North America,
and has attained the name of Nightingale defervedly, being
of a remarkable fine fong, the note much like that after which
it is named. In fpring, - and moft part of the fummer, fits'on
the fops of the higheft trees, finging early in the morning, fo
loud as almoft to pierce the ears: frequently kept in cages, in
which it fings throughout the year; fometimes quite mute for a
time, and again reftlefs, hopping from perch to perch, and finging
alternately. It is fond of maize and luck-wheat, and will get
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together great hoards of thefe, often as much as a bulhel, which
it artfully covers with leaves and fmall twigs, leaving only a
finall hole for its entrance into the magazine * ; is alfo fond of
lees. It comes the beginning of April into New York and the
JerJeys, and frequents the Magnolia fwamps during the fummer :
in autumn departs towards Carolina. Is pretty tame, frequently
hopping along the road before the traveller. It is not gregarious,
fcarce ever more than three or four being met with together.
From their being familiar birds, attempts have been made to
breed them in cages, but it has been without fuccefs ft.
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Le Gros-bec des Indes, Brif. orn. iii. p. 252. Na 16.
Pfitt. crift. ruber, minor ex infula Boetenfi, Seba, i. t. 60. f. 4.
J g l G G E R than the Hawfinch : length eight inches. Bill one
inch, and yellow : the head is crefted : the whole plumage
fine red: the bafe of the bill, and wing coverts, more dull than
the reft : legs yellow: toes long : claws lharp and bent.
Inhabits India.
Loxia Madagafcarienfis, Lin. Syf. i. p. 300. N° 6.
Le Cardinal de Madagafcar, Brif. orn. p. 112. N® 20. pi. 6. f. 2.
Le Foudis, Buf. oif. iii. p. 495.
Moineau de Madagafcar, PL enl, 134. f. 2.
O I Z E of a Houfe Sparrow : length five inches and a third.
Bill dulky : through the eye a ftreak of black ft : general cotUfl.
de la Louif. t Albin. J This is wanting in the PI. enl.
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