. American ornithology, or, The natural history of the birds of the United States [microform]. Birds; Oiseaux. 94 SCARLET of the eye is of a cream color, the legs and feet light blue. The female (now I believe for the first time figured) is green above and yellow below; the wings and tail brownish black, edged with green. The young birds, during their residence here the first season, continue nearly of the same color with the female. In this circumstance we again recognise the wise provision of the Deity, in thus clothing the female and the inex- peri^3nced yming, in a garb so favora
. American ornithology, or, The natural history of the birds of the United States [microform]. Birds; Oiseaux. 94 SCARLET of the eye is of a cream color, the legs and feet light blue. The female (now I believe for the first time figured) is green above and yellow below; the wings and tail brownish black, edged with green. The young birds, during their residence here the first season, continue nearly of the same color with the female. In this circumstance we again recognise the wise provision of the Deity, in thus clothing the female and the inex- peri^3nced yming, in a garb so favorable for concealment among the foli- age ; as the weakness of the one, and the frequent visits of the other to her nest, would greatly endanger the safety of all. That the young males do not receive their red plumage until the early part of the suc- ceeding spring, I think highly probable, from the circumstance of fre- quently finding their red feathers, at that season, intermixed with green ones, and the wings also broadly edged with green. These facts render it also probable that the old males regularly change their color, and have a summer and winter dress; but this, farther observations must determine. There is in the Brazils a bird of the same genus with this, and very much resembling it, so much so as to have been frequently confounded with it by European writers. It is the Tanngra Brazilia of Turton; and though so like, is a yet very distinct species from the present, as I have myself had the opportunity of ascertaining, by examining two very perfect specimens from Brazil, now in the possession of Mr. Pealc, and comparing them with this. The principal differences are these: the plumage of the Brazilian is almost black at bottom, very deep scarlet at the surface, and of an orangi- tint between; ours is ash colored at bot- tom, white in the middle, and bright scarlet at top. The tail of ours is forked, that of the other cuneiform or rounded. The bill of our species is more
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